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Boardman, Eunice Lowe, Anne Susan 2011-05-07T12:24:09Z 2011-05-07T12:24:09Z 10000-01-01 1995 The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the incorporation of a music program in the second-language classroom, with methodology based on similarities that exist between the structures of music and language, reinforced both the learning of music and the learning of a second language. Fifty-three subjects from two Grade 2 French immersion classes from one elementary school of the Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, area were chosen to represent the control (n = 26) and experimental (n = 27) groups of this study. Eight weekly units of five 15-minute music lessons totally incorporated to the French second-language class were planned and taught by the experimental group's regular classroom teacher. The general objective of the devised program was to help children gain the music concepts of tonal-rhythmic pattern and form that have commonalities with pronunciation, oral grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension. The control group received the regular oral-visual drill-type French lessons, and the regular 30 minutes a week of music taught by the music specialist. It was hypothesized that the incorporation of a music program into the French immersion classroom would reinforce both music and second-language learning. Criterion referenced tests were devised to measure the dependent variables. All music and French tests were administered as pre- and posttests. Academic achievement was also measured and considered as a variable that may have an effect on language and music achievement. Data were subjected to a series of ANOVA and ANCOVA statistical designs. Results indicated that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group in all music tests and in the oral grammar and reading comprehension French tests. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:24:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9624420.pdf: 9417521 bytes, checksum: 4aa19be9ecd72f95a5ff4170e8321afc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:40:34Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:25-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9624420 (UMI)AAI9624420 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19957 eng Copyright 1995 Lowe, Anne Susan Education, Bilingual and Multicultural Education, Music Education, Curriculum and Instruction The effect of the incorporation of music learning into the second language classroom on the mutual reinforcement of music and language text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.