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Music is more and more used by teachers to help students learn a second language. This is not surprising since there are more positive statements about the effectiveness of music in language learning. It has been reported to help students acquire vocabulary and grammar, improve spelling and develop the linguistic skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening (Jalongo and Bromley, 1984, Jolly Y. S., 1975, Mitchell, 1983). Music consistently surrounds our lives and may potentially assist educators in removing boundaries between the various communities that students belong to (Navy & Herman, 1987).
The area of psychology gives much of the support for the use of music in the language learning process. The psychological literature is rich with research on music and rote memorization (Borchgrevink, 1982, Deutsch, 1972). According these studies, language acquisition and rote memorization represent two distinct types of verbal learning. They are related, because learning a target language subsumes memorization. The ability to memorize is critical to the language learning process, since it would be virtually impossible to acquire language without memory.
Music has been shown to benefit the rote memorization process. When various types of verbal information were presented simultaneously with music, memorization was enhanced (Gfeller, 1983).
According to the Children’s Music Workshop (2013), the effect of music on language development can be seen in the brain. The group claims that recent studies have clearly indicated that music develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can actually wire the brain’s circuits in specific ways. (www.pbs.org). The Validity of using ...

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