Beneficial Effects of Musicality on the Development of Productive Phonology Skills in Second Language Acquisition.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies show beneficial effects of musicality on the acquisition of a second language (L2). While most research focused on perceptual aspects, only few studies investigated the effects of musicality on productive phonology. The present study tested if musicality can predict productive phonological skills in L2 acquisition. Sixty-three students with no previous exposure to Arabic were asked to repeatedly listen to and immediately reproduce short sentences in standard Arabic. Before the sentence reproduction task, they completed an auditory discrimination task in three different between-subjects condition: attentive, in which participants were asked to discriminate phonological variations in the same Arabic sentence that they were asked to reproduce later; non-attentive, in which pa

SUBMITTER: Delogu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7358579 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature