Karen M. Ludke|Fernanda Ferreira|Katie Overy
Singing can facilitate foreign language learning
University of Edinburgh|University of South Carolina|University of Edinburgh
study presents first experimental evidence singing facilitate shortterm pairedassociate phrase learning unfamiliar language hungarian sixty adult participants randomly assigned one three listenandrepeat learning conditions speaking rhythmic speaking singing participants singing condition showed superior overall performance collection hungarian language tests 15min learning period compared participants speaking rhythmic speaking conditions superior performance statistically significant p 05 two tests required participants recall produce spoken hungarian phrases differences performance explained potentially influencing factors age gender mood phonological working memory ability musical ability training results suggest listenandsing learning method facilitate verbatim memory spoken foreign language phrases