The relationship between pitch discrimination and Romanian students’ spelling performance

• Authors: Dacian Dorin Dolean
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Previous studies have shown that music can have a positive impact on phonological awareness and on foreign language acquisition. The present research investigates specifically the role of pitch discrimination ability in native and foreign language spelling performance. Two groups of elementary school children were selected based on their pitch discrimination abilities (high and low). Their spelling performance in their native and a foreign (fictional) language was assessed. The results indicate that pitch discrimination ability can be linked to spelling ability in both the native and a foreign language. They also suggest that studying a musical instrument might predict enhanced spelling performance ability

Keywords

EN

foreign language; music; spelling; phonological awareness; second language acquisition

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 233-240

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Dacian Dorin Dolean

• Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2013-0015