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Let the Music Play!--A Short-Term but No Long-Term Detrimental Effect of Vocal Background Music with Familiar Language Lyrics on Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning
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de Groot, Annette M. B.; Smedinga, Hilde E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
Participants learned foreign vocabulary by means of the paired-associates learning procedure in three conditions: (a) in silence, (b) with vocal music with lyrics in a familiar language playing in the background, or (c) with vocal music with lyrics in an unfamiliar language playing in the background. The vocabulary to learn varied in concreteness…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Effects of Stimulus Characteristics and Background Music on Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning and Forgetting
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de Groot, Annette M. B. – Language Learning, 2006
This study examined the effects of three stimulus variables and background music on paired-associate learning of foreign language (FL) vocabulary. The stimulus variables were the frequency and concreteness of the native language (L1) words and the (phonotactical) typicality of the FL words. Sixty-four L1-FL pairs were presented for learning six…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Music, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development