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Integrating Balinese Gamelan Music with Sensorimotor Rhythm Intervention to Improve Brain Wave Synchrony and Language Processing in Autistic Children
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Putu Aditya Antara; I Made Agus Wirawan; Putu Rahayu Ujianti; Made Vina Arie Paramita; Rendy Setyowahyudi; Ni Putu Sinta Dewi – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
The main objective of this study was to explore the effectiveness of combining Balinese Gamelan music with sensorimotor rhythm intervention in improving brain wave synchronization and language processing abilities in autistic children. This study used a qualitative method with an ethnographic case study approach to explore how the integration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musical Instruments, Music Activities, Folk Culture
Harry Potter in Japanese: A Single Participant Study of Extended Bi-Modal Language Input
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Cheetham, Dominic – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
The positive effects of bi-modal input on language learning are becoming a largely accepted experimental finding. However, experiments looking at bi-modal reading in a foreign language are normally limited by the common experimental situation of classroom-based researchers studying university age participants for the limited timespan of a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Translation, Language Processing, Japanese
Effects of Phonological and Musical Training on the Reading Readiness of Native- and Foreign-Spanish-Speaking Children
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Herrera, Lucia; Lorenzo, Oswaldo; Defior, Sylvia; Fernandez-Smith, Gerard; Costa-Giomi, Eugenia – Psychology of Music, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a music training program on children's phonological awareness and naming speed in Spanish. Participants were preschool children whose first language was either Spanish (n = 45) or Tamazight ( n = 52), a Berber dialect spoken in Morocco's Rif area. The two-year pretest/posttest study…
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Music, Music Activities, Phonology
Shared Book Reading. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Shared Book Reading" is a general practice aimed at enhancing young children's language and literacy skills and their appreciation of books. Typically, "Shared Book Reading" involves an adult reading a book to one child or a small group of children without requiring extensive interactions from them. Three studies of…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Preschool Children, Oral Language, Language Processing
The Role of Stress in Language Processing and Intervention.
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Weismer, Susan Ellis – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Reviews studies that investigated the effects of emphatic stress on novel word learning by children with normal language and those with specific language impairments. The results indicate that use of emphatic stress on modeled target forms improved the children's lexical learning. Implications for language intervention are discussed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Intervention, Language Impairments, Language Processing
Becoming Bilingual in English in a Philippine Setting: A Partial Report of a Manila Sample.
Gonzalez, Andrew – 1979
Philippine students in grades K-6, representing different socioeconomic classes, participated in individual elicitation sessions. Using Pilipino (Tagalog) as the language of elicitation, experimenters used pictorial stimuli to elicit specific structures of English grammar, in order to discover if the subjects had mastered these structures. Only…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Children, Elementary Education