The Aesthetic as Intrinsic Motivation: The Heart of Drama for Language Education

Decoursey, Matthew William

doi:10.5406/jaesteduc.50.3.0013

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“…Within this framework, the investigation of subjective aesthetic appreciation appears crucial for the study of learning and memory. Future studies should assess whether the relationship between aesthetic appreciation and optimal learning processes can be fruitfully exploited to potentiate individual intrinsic motivation (Apter, 1983;Decoursey, 2016;Murayama, Matsumoto, Izuma & Matsumoto, 2010;Oudeyer, Gottlieb & Lopes, 2016) and memory retrieval (Lehmann & Seufert, 2018;Proverbio & De Benedetto, 2018) in activities such as teaching and cognitive rehabilitation, especially in presence of attentional/memorisation deficits.…”

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Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

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Is it true that we learn better what we like? Current neuroaesthetic and neurocomputational models of aesthetic appreciation postulate the existence of a correlation between aesthetic appreciation and learning. However, even though aesthetic appreciation has been associated with attentional enhancements, systematic evidence demonstrating its influence on learning processes is still lacking. Here, in two experiments, we investigated the relationship between aesthetic preferences for consonance versus dissonance and the memorisation of musical intervals and chords. In Experiment 1, 60 participants were first asked to memorise and evaluate arpeggiated triad chords (memorisation phase), then, following a distraction task, chords’ memorisation accuracy was measured (recognition phase). Memorisation resulted to be significantly enhanced for subjectively preferred as compared with non-preferred chords. To explore the possible neural mechanisms underlying these results, we performed an EEG study, directed to investigate implicit perceptual learning dynamics (Experiment 2). Through an auditory mismatch detection paradigm, electrophysiological responses to standard/deviant intervals were recorded, while participants were asked to evaluate the beauty of the intervals. We found a significant trial-by-trial correlation between subjective aesthetic judgements and single trial amplitude fluctuations of the ERP attention-related N1 component. Moreover, implicit perceptual learning, expressed by larger mismatch detection responses, was enhanced for more appreciated intervals. Altogether, our results showed the existence of a relationship between aesthetic appreciation and implicit learning dynamics as well as higher-order learning processes, such as memorisation. This finding might suggest possible future applications in different research domains such as teaching and rehabilitation of memory and attentional deficits.

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Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

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Active learning in scientific writing skill using Indonesian textbook based on character education

Slamet

Winarni

Hartono

2019

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The purpose of this study was to describe development of text-based and character-based Indonesian textbook model. The method was research and development which consists of four stages, they are: (1) Exploration, (2) Model Development, (3) Model Testing, and (4) Disemination. The research approach in the exploration stage was qualitative descriptive approach. Data collection was done through in-depth interviews, observation, documentation, and questionnaires. Data analysis technique was done by interactive analysis model. Experimental research was done in the model testing stage. The results of this study: (1) exploration stage showed that the Indonesian textbooks used in UNS, UMS, and UNISRI Surakarta, have not been in accordance with the needs of students and lecturers, (2) model development stage produced a character-based scientific writing textbook through preliminary field testing; and (3) the effectiveness testing showed that the value of t obtained was 0.17 which then compared with the value of t table (with N = 90, α = 0.05) pointing 1.64. Thus, the t-obtained (0.17) > t-table (1.64), the hypothesis was accepted (Ho was rejected) and the textbook was stated significant. This means that the text-based and character-based Indonesian textbook was effective to improve scientific writing skills.

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The Aesthetic as Intrinsic Motivation: The Heart of Drama for Language Education

Cited by 2 publications

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Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

Active learning in scientific writing skill using Indonesian textbook based on character education

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