Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning

• Authors: Jerzy Zybert , Sabina Stępień
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the potential advantage that musically gifted FL learners have in developing the speaking skill, especially in acquiring some prosodic features. Empirical findings are provided to support the assumption.

Keywords

EN

language; music; linguistic intelligence; musical intelligence; foreign language learning

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 99-111

Dates

published

2009-01-01

online

2009-12-23

Contributors

author

Jerzy Zybert

• University of Warsaw

author

Sabina Stępień

• University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-009-0007-4