It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language.

Liu, Fengqin; Sulpizio, Simone; Kornpetpanee, Suchada; Job, Remo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177624

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“…In this line, Raine et al (2017) concluded that changes in aerobic fitness were positively related to changes in reading between sixth and eighth grade. Physical activity even enhances the learning of a second non-maternal language (Liu et al, 2017). This disagreement among research could be caused by the specific neuromechanisms for these cognitive functions, the variability of linguistic tests, or the inherent characteristics of each study sample.…”

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The aim was to analyse the effect of monitored cooperative high-intensity interval training (monitored C-HIIT) on memory, selective attention, concentration, mathematical calculation, and linguistic reasoning in adolescents. A randomized controlled trial was used with a control group (CG, n = 94), and an experimental group (EG, n = 90) that performed monitored C-HIIT at the beginning of physical education (PE) classes, during 12 weeks (24 sessions). The EG increased 14.2% in selective attention, 8.41% in concentration, and 15.5% in mathematical calculation relative to the CG after the monitored C-HIIT programme (all p < 0.001). These improvements are especially significant in inactive students (all p < 0.001), but there were no differences in memory or linguistic reasoning variables (p > 0.05). It is concluded that a 16-minute monitored C-HIIT programme applied at the beginning of PE classes improves some cognitive variables, especially in physically inactive adolescents.

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“…The majority of studies investigating the acute effects of exercise on memory processes asked participants to exercise either before or after memory encoding (Schramke and Bauer, 1997;Coles and Tomporowski, 2008;Pesce et al, 2009;Labban and Etnier, 2011;Etnier et al, 2014;Hötting et al, 2016; for a recent review, see Loprinzi et al, 2019). However, there is also an increasing body of research showing that acute exercise during memory encoding can enhance episodic memory performance (Schmidt-Kassow et al, 2010, 2014Mavilidi et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2017). Mavilidi et al (2017) used physical exercise to teach 90 preschool children the names and positions of planets of our solar system.…”

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“…The positive effect of physical exercise during memory encoding could also be shown for language learning tasks. Liu et al (2017) tested 40 Chinese-English L2-learners in a vocabulary learning task. The learning phase included eight test sessions with one session per week.…”

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Running During Encoding Improves Word Learning for Children

Amico

Schaefer

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The learning of new information is an important task in everyday life, especially at a young age. Acute physical exercise can facilitate cognitive processes in multiple ways, and previous studies have shown that memory can profit from physical exercise before and during the encoding of vocabulary. The current study investigates the interplay of movement and vocabulary learning and also addresses lifespan differences in these effects. Participants were recruited in a recreational basketball club. Children (n = 24, M age = 12.3 years; 13 girls), young adults (n = 30, M age = 21.5 years; 17 women), and older adults (n = 24, M age = 59.3 years; 9 women) learned 20 new pseudo-words, which corresponded to a German word. In a between-subjects design, encoding took place either while standing, while running, or while running and dribbling a basketball. Recall was assessed three times throughout the learning session and on the following day. In children, more words could be remembered in the running condition compared to the standing condition. There were no differences between conditions for the young and older adults. Age-dependent reasons for this pattern of results are discussed and embedded into the literature of physical exercise. Our result suggests that implementing learning activities into children's physical education or exercise activities could be beneficial.

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“…Within a week the group were tested using two types of task namely word picture verification task and semantic judgement task; the experiment group performed better not only in L2 vocabulary but also in sentence processing as well. Moreover, the advantage of the physical activity group last longer since a month after the training, both group were retested and yield the same result; the experiment group lead the performance [2].…”

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Teacher Awareness on the Use of Physical Activities to Introduce English in Early Childhood Education

Suraya¹,

Soegiyanto²,

Rahayu³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Physical Education, Sport, and Health (ACPES 2019)

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Physical activities provide many benefits for children and it stick to children daily activities, since children by nature love to play any physical activities. On the other hand, English, in Indonesian curriculum for Early Childhood Education is no longer allowed to be a subject being taught. Whereas, the Krasen critical period hypothesis argues that the earlier is the better for learning a new language. Therefore, it needs to be integrated to other subjects. This researcher aims to analyze the teacher's awareness on the use of physical activities to Introduce English in Early Childhood Education using a quantitative survey design. By administering a set of questionnaires which focused on 4 aspect namely teacher perspective about physical activities, teacher perspective toward English, teacher physical activities' preferences and teacher's preference on teaching English, this research explain the teacher awareness on the importance of English and physical activities as well as the integration of English in physical activities. Physical activities and English language are highly valued by teachers. However, even they favor the physical activities and English, it did not guarantee that they are aware on integrating English in their activities, either in physical or nonphysical activities.

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It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language.

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