Educational and entertainment audiovisual aids in teaching the Japanese language: mnemonic song supported by video as a tool of edutainment

Introduction. This article is dedicated to the problem of efficiency of using the multimedia aids in Japanese language teaching at the modern stage considering peculiarities of perception of today’s students (students of Net Generation). On the base of the mentioned above as the object of our research were chosen video clips from Youtube for teaching Japanese language which have mnemonic song as an element of edutainment. Тhe purpose of this article is to show the potential of mnemonic song which is supporting the images of learning content during teaching Japanese and also to show efficiency of video clips with mnemonic songs. Methods. We have provided the analytical review of the recent tendencies in teaching, using multimedia in particular, and demonstrated its benefits and efficiency. Results. Having analyzed mentioned above educational and entertainment video clips with mnemonic songs we developed the detailed classifications of those basing on such criteria as the object of teaching (vocabulary, grammar, writing), peculiarities of layout of study material (visual and audial), made detailed description of those structure and pointed those special aspects. Also we provided the classification of the Japanese mnemonic songs and demonstrated its connection with other classifications mentioned above. Conclusion. On the basis of the conducted analysis it’s possible to state that the educational and entertainment video clips with mnemonic songs can be considered the effective tool of teaching Japanese language for the students of modern generation since those correspond to their peculiarities of perception and improve memorizing of content in entertaining mode which makes studying Japanese more effective at different stages.