Learning a second language: Can music aptitude or music training have a role?

Talamini, Francesca; Grassi, Massimo; Toffalini, Enrico; Santoni, Rosa; Carretti, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2018.04.003

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“…La primera da cuenta de que la instrucción musical puede ser beneficiosa para tareas relacionadas estrechamente con la música, por ejemplo, mayor facilidad para detectar tonos o una mayor destreza motora (Habibi, Cahn, Damasio y Damasio, 2016). La segunda se refiere a los beneficios de esta práctica en habilidades no musicales como, por ejemplo, el lenguaje (Schlaug, Norton, Overy y Winner, 2005;Talamini et al, 2018).…”

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“…Los seres humanos nacen con predisposición a la percepción y al quehacer musical (Hannon, Schachner y Nave-Blodgetta, 2017;Peretz, 2008;Smith, Folland, Martínez y Laurel, 2017;Trehub y Cirelli, 2018). Ciertos estudios sugieren que la instrucción musical, además de mejorar el conocimiento de la música, afecta el desarrollo de conductas básicas y estructuras, funciones cerebrales y procesos neuronales en una gama de dominios y modalidades (Talamini, Grassi, Toffalini, Santoni y Carretti, 2018;Zuk et al, 2018).…”

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Plasticidad cerebral y entrenamiento musical en niños. Una revisión sistemática.

2021

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Los primeros años son extraordinariamente importantes para todos los aspectos del desarrollo. Diferentes investigaciones dan cuenta de que el entrenamiento musical podría incidir sobre diferentes áreas del desarrollo del infante. El objetivo del siguiente trabajo es rastrear y analizar en la literatura las investigaciones que indican que el entrenamiento musical afectaría las habilidades cognitivas, la anatomía y la actividad cerebral en infantes. Se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en bases de datos científicas indexadas (Scielo, Redalyc, ScienceDirect, Pubmed, WOS y Scopus), utilizando las palabras clave: music, music training, music education, child, cognition, brain, development. Se utilizaron como variables de análisis: el instrumento de evaluación empleado, el tipo de intervención empleada y el tiempo de entrenamiento. Los estudios revisados mostraron resultados contrapuestos acerca del efecto del entrenamiento musical en los infantes, aunque, mayoritariamente se ha encontrado que el entrenamiento musical promueve el desarrollo cognitivo e influye en otras áreas.

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Plasticidad cerebral y entrenamiento musical en niños. Una revisión sistemática.

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“…Music and language are not only two different subjects but also different in acquisition and processing inside the brain (left cerebral for language, right for music). However, besides difference mentioned, there are similarities between both in an acquisition which are the usage of speech organ in producing a sequence of digitized sounds (Jackendoff, 2009), neural mechanism particularly brain activation and improvisation toward melodic unfamiliarity in nearly identical functional brain area (Deguchi et al, 2012;Talamini, Grassi, Toffalini, Santoni, & Carretti, 2018;Yu et al, 2017) and perception in term of awareness (Patel, 2011;Zeromskaite, 2014). Further, the correlation between two subjects can be also found on the technical mechanism which is observable using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in processing language semantics (Bever & Chiarello, 2009).…”

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“…The result of previous researches on the correlation between both domains explains how specific teaching material on musical skills can strengthen non-native students' level of English pronunciation. Nevertheless, musical aptitude in this case melodic and rhythmic analysis is not only limited to affect pronunciation, but also a semantic process through auditorymotor integration (Yu et al, 2017) and dictation skills (Talamini et al, 2018) among early childhood of 3 -4 years old (Lorenzo, Herrera, Hernandez-Candelas, & Badera, 2014) and in young learner around 13 -15 years old or under 18 years old.…”

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“…Music and language are two activities that connect, which have proven the hypothesis of music by nature and nurture on children showing positive relation to second language learning (Talamini et al, 2018). Moreover, consistencies (Jackendoff, 2009) proposed that all language teachers in all schools in China should be competent also in music training so that they are capable of employing the music environment for achieving learning goals for all pupils effectively and efficiently.…”

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Musical Sensitivity on Trained and Untrained Vocalist: A Study of English Phonological Awareness

Pinem¹,

Kusuma²,

Triprasetyo³

2020

Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)

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Music and language acquiring spots may be different in the brain yet share the same sound production. Skills to acknowledge music is beneficial to produce musical arts while the ability to recognize phonology in English leads to not only native-like pronunciation but also word-class identification and implicature. This study attempts to look at how musical sensitivity affects phonological awareness of both trained and untrained vocalists. The objects of this research are elements of music (rhythm and pitch) that reflected English phonology (rhythm and intonation). Toward two groups of trained and untrained vocalists, the instrument of evaluation which includes 46 tests in listening for each subject (music and phonology) was given. The test is to measure participants' ability to duplicate sound based on the instruction given. Data for this study -score from both subjects -were analyzed by using variance and interpretation. From the sound production of all respondents, the problem occurs on English pronunciation as the effects of elements of rhythm and pitch in misunderstanding, accent and robotic utterance. The effect of music on untrained (x2) vocalist toward phonology (y) seems to outperform trained (x1) vocalist by more than 10 percent. However, both are able to give above 50 percent contribution on English phonology. By this, musical practice on rhythm and pitch is recommended to be conducted on English pronunciation class.

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Is musical expertise associated with self-reported foreign-language ability?

Schellenberg¹,

Correia²,

Lima³

2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Many claims have been made about links between musical expertise and language ability. Rhythm ability, in particular, has been shown to predict phonological, grammatical, and second-language (L2) abilities, whereas music training often predicts reading and speech-perception skills. Here, we asked whether musical expertise—musical ability and/or music training—relates to L2 (English) abilities of Portuguese native speakers. Participants (N = 154) rated their L2 ability on seven 7-point scales, one each for speaking, reading, writing, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and accent. They also completed a test of general cognitive ability, an objective test of musical ability with melody and rhythm subtests, and a questionnaire that measured music training and other aspects of musical behaviors. L2 ability correlated positively with education and cognitive ability but not with music training. It also had no association with musical ability or with self-reports of musical behaviors. Moreover, Bayesian analyses provided evidence for the null hypotheses (i.e., no link between L2 and rhythm ability, no link between L2 and years of music lessons). In short, our findings—based on participants’ self-reports of L2 ability—raise doubts about proposed associations between musical and second-language abilities, which may be limited to specific populations or measures.

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Learning a second language: Can music aptitude or music training have a role?

Cited by 16 publications

References 43 publications

Plasticidad cerebral y entrenamiento musical en niños. Una revisión sistemática.

Plasticidad cerebral y entrenamiento musical en niños. Una revisión sistemática.

Musical Sensitivity on Trained and Untrained Vocalist: A Study of English Phonological Awareness

Is musical expertise associated with self-reported foreign-language ability?

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