Research on the impact of music interventions has indicated positive effects on a variety of
skills. These findings suggest musical interventions may have further potential to support …

Several studies have suggested that intensive musical training enhances children's
linguistic skills. Such training, however, is not available to all children. We studied in a …

Developing an interdisciplinary approach is a paramount concern for educators and
researchers in the field of education, given its proven effectiveness in enhancing cognitive …

Musical aptitude and language talent are highly intertwined when it comes to phonetic
language ability. Research on pre-school children's musical abilities and foreign language …

Recent studies on the learning of L2 prosody have suggested that pitch gestures can
enhance the learning of the L2 lexical tones. Yet it remains unclear whether the use of these …

One of the main reasons for studying a foreign language is communicating with others, but
many students do not feel confidently enough when trying to develop their speaking skills …

Studies involving direct language imitation tasks have shown that pronunciation ability is
related to musical competence and working memory capacities. However, this type of task …

This article provides a microscopic view of learners' first encounters with multimodal texts in
their primary EFL classrooms. It is argued that multimodal texts create opportunities for …

La complejidad de los mecanismos cognitivos (procesos atencionales, memoria de trabajo,
velocidad de procesamiento), de los afectivos (motivación, autoestima, ansiedad) y de los …

Musical expertise and working memory (WM) have been isolated as being the most
important predictors of phonetic aptitude–meaning the ability to imitate unfamiliar speech …