Effects of music instruction on cognitive abilities of young children

Nikolaos Zafranas

Книга по Требованию

2010

978-3-8383-7077-4

Effects of music instruction on cognitive abilities of young children

Several studies have shown that children who received piano instruction achieved better results on spatial-temporal tasks than various control group children did. The present study involved kindergarten children who received two piano-keyboard lessons weekly. Six sub-tests from the K-ABC were administered before and after the instruction period. Results revealed that piano-keyboard instruction produced enhanced spatial-temporal test scores. Although pre-tests showed no significant gender differences, post-testing found boys significantly outperforming girls in the Hand Movements task while their gain scores were significantly higher than girls’ scores in the Triangles task. Music is an art form that can provide an invaluable means of self-expression and of personal enjoyment. For many children, the quality of their kindergarten education may have lasting effects on their later achievements. It is hoped that these findings contribute to the growing body of research investigating the extra-musical effects of music instruction and that administrators might consider including appropriate music and piano-keyboard instruction as an integral part of kindergarten education programmes.

3 489,00 Руб.

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Teaching English to Very Young Children at Home

Barbora Polesovska

Книга по Требованию

2010

978-3-8383-6865-8

Teaching English to Very Young Children at Home

The discussion about the early foreign language instructions is very "hot" nowadays. Psychologists and teachers undertake many researches on this question. Nevertheless, this book is not written to judge their opinion or results from some researches. My work brings the positive and negative aspects of teaching very young children and the main aim is to come with the proposal on possible education at home. My work should serve as a guide-book. It is written mainly for people who consider home teaching of foreign language and want to know more about this area. In spite of the fact that the following pages describe teaching of English, the information and instructions can be adapted to any other European language. The work discusses the psychological and linguistic development of children at the age of 4 to 7 for better imagination of possible work with them. It could be thought that so young children have too much limited amount of abilities usable in foreign language lessons. But the opposite is true. This book contains many real examples of ready made activities and games.

2 605,00 Руб.

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