The Influence of aural training in music on the perceptive performance of adult learners' sound-discrimination abilities in an unknown foreign language
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Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? The study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them. 25 randomly selected subjects then went through an aural training in music for two weeks before all the subjects were retested in their aural-perceptive abilities in the Finnish language by means of a similar test containing different test items. The hypothesised positive effect of the musical intervention could be partially proved by a statistically significant mean enhancement in the final scores achieved by the trained group compared to an insignificant enhancement achieved by the control group.
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The Influence of aural training in music on the perceptive performance of adult learners' sound-discrimination abilities in an unknown foreign language, Friederike Flottmann
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- Title
- The Influence of aural training in music on the perceptive performance of adult learners' sound-discrimination abilities in an unknown foreign language
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Friederike Flottmann
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- Lang
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- 2010
- ISBN10
- 3631613539
- ISBN13
- 9783631613535
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- University and college textbooks
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- Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? The study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them. 25 randomly selected subjects then went through an aural training in music for two weeks before all the subjects were retested in their aural-perceptive abilities in the Finnish language by means of a similar test containing different test items. The hypothesised positive effect of the musical intervention could be partially proved by a statistically significant mean enhancement in the final scores achieved by the trained group compared to an insignificant enhancement achieved by the control group.