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STUDY UNIT 2- How does music concepts and related experiences relates to Life skills, Mathematics and Language education.

8 Oct 2021, 16:21 Publicly Viewable

MATHEMATICS 

Music is one of the few activities that involves using the whole brain therefore memorizing songs can help learners with pattern recognition, which is the basis for any reading and mathematics work they do on their daily life. Improved memory, focused attention, effective learning and enhanced communication are the common known skills that relates to music concepts and can help with mathematics. 

LIFE SKILLS 

Learning to regulate one's emotions and to be fine with delayed gratification is something that parents want their children to learn, this skill can be used for any area of life and any developmental stage. Impulse control and delayed gratification are very difficult concepts for learners therefore through waiting for their turns when signing they are consolidating their skills through extra repetitions of the rhythm.

LANGUAGE EDUCATION 

Music correlates with better language skills, children who grew up listening to music develop strong music related connections that in turn strengthen their language skills. Learners with a musical background are better at pronouncing the sounds of other languages and at perceiving the relevant contrasts between sounds in those new languages. Skills are: better pronunciation of words, perception of linguistic sounds,  easy to learn other languages, retaining words and expressions much more effectively.