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SUBMITTER: Busse V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6279872 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Busse Vera V Jungclaus Jana J Roden Ingo I Russo Frank A FA Kreutz Gunter G
Frontiers in psychology 20181128
There is growing evidence that singing can have a positive effect on language learning, but few studies have explored its benefit for children who have recently migrated to a new country. In the present study, recently migrated children (<i>N</i> = 35) received three 40-min sessions where all students learnt the lyrics of two songs designed to simulate language learning through alternating teaching modalities (singing and speaking). Children improved their language knowledge significantly includ ...[more]