The Impact of Musical Training on Linguistic Skills in Children: A Review
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v13i1.5754Keywords:
phonological awareness, music, language, linguistics, education, literature reviewAbstract
This paper evaluates the idea of musical education and its benefits on children at the elementary school age. Music has been and will continue to be a part of people's lives, so it is important to investigate bringing it to the field of education. This article discusses the effects of musical education on children’s linguistic skills. It also, if applicable, seeks to find throughlines and common threads between curricula that achieve successful results with children to isolate the important factors that make music more beneficial. Musical education was found to improve phonological awareness abilities in children, most commonly 4-6 years old, and a wide variety of musical curriculums were further found to have a positive impact on children’s linguistic skills.
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