Perceptions and predictions of expertise in advanced musical learners

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

the role of teachers explicit corrective feedback in grammar learning of the intrinsically and the extrinsically motivated advanced english female learners

در تحقیق حاضر تلاش شد تا از سویی رابطه بین تصحیح مستقیم خطاهای گرامری زبان آموزان توسط معلم بررسی شود و از سوی دیگر رابطه میان این تصحیح ها و انگیزه زبان آموز مورد بررسی قرار گیرد. به این منظور تعداد 45 زبان آموز دختر سطح پیشرفته در نظر گرفته شد که بعد از جمع آوری پرسش نامه هایی در ارتباط با انگیزه آنه نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی 20 نفر از آنها در گروه انگیزه درونی و 15 نفر در گروه انگیزه بیرو...

Musical Expertise and Statistical Learning of Musical and Linguistic Structures

Adults and infants can use the statistical properties of syllable sequences to extract words from continuous speech. Here we present a review of a series of electrophysiological studies investigating (1) Speech segmentation resulting from exposure to spoken and sung sequences (2) The extraction of linguistic versus musical information from a sung sequence (3) Differences between musicians and n...

Musical Expertise and Melodic Structure in Memory for Musical Notation