The Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive Performance of Adult Learners’ Sound-Discrimination Abilities in an Unknown Foreign Language
©2011
Thesis
222 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 222
- Publication Year
- 2011
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631613535
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Sound discrimination aural training speech perception foreign-language learning
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 222 pp., 107 fig., 8 tables
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