We learn through our interactions and
communications with others. So, what is the first interaction that a person has
with the social environment? How does it help to learn?
“Gardner (1993) describes music as the first
intelligence to emerge. Children are naturally inclined to sing and move to
rhythms”.
During the pregnancy, inside the mother’s womb, the
baby 👶can hear the heartbeat 💓, the mother’s 👩 and father’s 👨voice, and other environment sounds 🌳🐦⛅. These are music ♫♬🎜🎝🎶 for
the baby’s ears and it helps to develop different cognitive areas of the children’s
brain. The results are in better hearing and language development.
An interesting fact is by the time they're born the
children can still remember the mother’s heartbeat. In an experiment, mothers
left their children alone in a room, and the children felt uneasy and afraid.
But then, through loudspeakers, they heard the sound of their mother’s heart and
immediately the children calmed down and even smiled. Let’s watch the video below
So, the time passes and the kids are able to
remember some sounds. This is interesting and it happens with many songs that
we have learned when we were children. For example: the song “Head, shoulders,
knees and toes”. Everybody know it, even if your teacher never taught you the
song you can easily learn it. Therefore, it is a useful tool because the music helps in the learning process of the language
and the students will enjoy.
REFERENCE
REFERENCE
Shin, J. K. (2017). Get Up and Sing! Get Up
and Move! Using Songs and Movement with Young Learners of English. English
Teaching Forum, 14-25.
That´s true since there are some songs we won´t forget. I think that the musical intelligence is one of the most common and easy to use in order we can give a better class. I think we can use music with all ages, with kids is more suitable since they are knowing their environment and music can help them to develop listening skills. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSomething curious about the first sounds, it is incredible to see how the babies identify with the sounds, not necessarily music. That is to say how the sound of a washing machine working, the sound of a car engine, when a bird sings, or simply to listen to the voice of the adults, for them, life starts with sounds.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Almita and Even: music can help you remember something, for example, if you like a song and identify some vocabulary words, expressions, grammar structures and later you see them in a text or listen to them in a conversation, you start singing or humming that song and you recall it. In addition to this, music can help your students to feel relaxed and focus in a task, so you can play a background sound while your students work. Thanks for sharing!
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