Music and second language: A case study about Primary Education students' perceptions of relations and similarities between both areas
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This study arises from a research and teaching innovation project entitled iPlay School of Music and Languages, organised by the Research Group HUM-1006, Trinity College Spain-Portugal, and the Territorial Delegation of Education, Sport, Equality and Social Policies of Cordoba (Spain), which consists of teaching theoretical and instrumental music lessons (group guitar classes) by using English as a second language (L2). The main aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between music and second language learning by means of a questionnaire distributed among 41 students aged between 9 and 10 years old, 24 of whom had participated in the project for one year, while the other students were studying English at school, following the school curriculum. In the survey, the subjects were asked about their perceptions of music and second language learning in terms of processing and constituent elements. The purpose of this study is to investigate about the benefits that music learning could provide to foreign language learning. The results confirm that music training helps foreign language learning, and suggest that further research is needed to find out what kind of methodology music learning can benefit second learning, which can lead to an improvement in the learning of both disciplines in order to extrapolate the results to classroom practice.
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