Musical Talents and Foreign Language Learning Ability

Blickenstaff, Channing B.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1963.tb06246.x

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“…Blickenstaff (1963) alleges that musical abilities affect hearing skills and so positively influence articulation. Thus it only remains to find empirical evidence to support similar claims especially since many FL teachers maintain that proper pronunciation is the most difficult aspect of language learning in general.…”

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Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning

Zybert

Stępień

2009

RiL

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Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning

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Teachers and Students, Students and Teachers: An Ever‐Evolving Partnership

Horwitz

2000

The Modern Language Journal

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This article provides a historical overview of Modern Language Journal (MLJ ) articles that describe the teacher-learner relationship. From the earliest issues of the MLJ, authors have noted the importance of recognizing and responding to individual learner differences. This review focuses on how language learners have been portrayed in the MLJ and the implications of these portrayals for language teaching. It, thus, addresses the characteristics that language learners have been seen to possess and how language teachers have been urged to respond to these characteristics. Specific topics include foreign language aptitude, motivation and other emotional responses to language learning, reasons for student attrition, and advice for modifying instruction for different learner-types. This review also considers a number of articles written by language learners and addressed to their language teachers. Several recommendations are offered, including reinstitution of learner-authored articles in the MLJ and closer attention to the learner's voice in reports of classroom-based research.

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Language Testing in The Modern Language Journal

Spolsky

2000

The Modern Language Journal

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The Modern Language Journal published on average two articles a year dealing with language tests in its first 80 years. This probably reflects the actual (if not the desirable) level of interest in language testing of the language teaching profession. For the early years, before more specialized journals appeared, it gives an excellent picture of the history of the field in the United States. Later, the coverage became spottier, but there continued to appear a number of important articles especially on topics like prognosis and aptitude tests, the cloze test, oral testing, and the controversy over the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. As a whole, the articles show a valuable concern with the use rather than the form of language tests.

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Musical Talents and Foreign Language Learning Ability

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning

Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning

Teachers and Students, Students and Teachers: An Ever‐Evolving Partnership

Language Testing in The Modern Language Journal

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