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How can I use music to support all students in their ability to acquire language?. Shanshan Jia December 16, 2013. Abstract.
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How can I use music to support all students in their ability to acquire language? Shanshan Jia December 16, 2013
Abstract This speech, learning how to integrate music in the classroom to improve sight word recognition, is rooted in the Socio-cultural theory as well as New Literacy Studies as cited in Larson and Marsh (2005).
Study showed that all children improved with sight word recognition based on running records as well as writing. Implications include collaboration with music professionals and opportunities for children to mix music with literacy activities.
The research took place at a church using Christian materials and participants include five first graders and one second grader. Past researchers found that children with limited English proficiency learned on new vocabulary through singing and sign input. The methods of this study include singing and sign language, musical bingo and modeled writing.
Musical creation, or composition, is nearly identical to the writing process that we teach our students. Just look:
Just explaining these connections between writing and composing to your students isn’t enough, though. Going through the actual process of composing can be used to explore and reinforce the writing process. Sometimes students need a new motivation to see things from another perspective and what better way than to change things up a bit and have them go through the same process with a different outcome? A piece of music!
