PlumX Metrics
Embed PlumX Metrics

Singing can facilitate foreign language learning

Memory and Cognition, ISSN: 0090-502X, Vol: 42, Issue: 1, Page: 41-52
2014
  • 105
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 352
    Captures
  • 9
    Mentions
  • 216
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    105
    • Citation Indexes
      104
    • Policy Citations
      1
      • Policy Citation
        1
  • Captures
    352
  • Mentions
    9
    • News Mentions
      6
      • News
        6
    • Blog Mentions
      3
      • Blog
        3
  • Social Media
    216
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      216
      • Facebook
        216

Most Recent News

What Music Can Do To Your Mind And Body?

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The psychological aspect of music is powerful as it is often considered a source of pleasure that impacts your body,

Article Description

This study presents the first experimental evidence that singing can facilitate short-term paired-associate phrase learning in an unfamiliar language (Hungarian). Sixty adult participants were randomly assigned to one of three "listen-and-repeat" learning conditions: speaking, rhythmic speaking, or singing. Participants in the singing condition showed superior overall performance on a collection of Hungarian language tests after a 15-min learning period, as compared with participants in the speaking and rhythmic speaking conditions. This superior performance was statistically significant (p < .05) for the two tests that required participants to recall and produce spoken Hungarian phrases. The differences in performance were not explained by potentially influencing factors such as age, gender, mood, phonological working memory ability, or musical ability and training. These results suggest that a "listen-and-sing" learning method can facilitate verbatim memory for spoken foreign language phrases. © 2013 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know