Being Bilingual is s Superpower!

One study suggests that piano lessons can help children build up their language processing skills. ti.me/2J6rS02

Why you should enroll your kids in music — Another scientific article proves #music lessons enhances language acquisition and aids many other areas of learning time.com/5322121/music-…

years ago, someone told me that to make it easier to learn a language, listen to pop music in that language. it's not that you'll learn what words mean, but you'll learn to identify words and the boundaries between them, which is apparently hard to do in a lot of cases.

Music is the perfect creative gateway to get interested in foreign languages, or to expand upon your language learning and daily practice. Deeper listening not only increases appreciation for the melody but improves vocabulary and cultural awareness! bit.ly/2YG4Dqd

#Music & movement are connected to verbal memory- a key component of language learning. This article outlines 3 approaches to the creation of pedagogical songs w accompanying examples so teachers can create lyrics that fit the content they are teaching. 💻 doi.org/10.1002/tesj.3…

Listen to Nina Kraus on Enhance Life with Music podcast! Mindy Peterson mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/episod… #neuroscience #science #research #auditory #auditoryprocessing #music #language #learning #sound #sounds #brain #mind #ofsoundmindbook #rhythm #aging #antiaging #communication

Creating natural language interfaces for music information retrieval has been a core goal of my PhD research so far 💬←🧠→🎶So I'm happy to announce that our latest work in this direction, Contrastive Audio-Language Learning for Music (MusCALL), has been accepted to ISMIR Conference!

This week, making language learning more fun through music, I redesigned Songlingo's homepage. Featuring: - a new layout to pick songs - new instructions for a great way to learn languages through songs! Check Songlingo out below cc: buildspace

Prof Minna Huotilainen showed how musical activities are helpful for language learning at many ages, including young children. Her work aims at increasing the amount of music that teachers use with their pupils, giving teachers skills and knowledge on how and why to teach with music.4/

Singing Language – Integrating Second Language Learning into Choir Practice. New article by Johanna Lehtinen-Schnabel + Sari Levänen. Action Editor: Isabel Martinez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #musicscience #openaccess #OpenScience

🎶 Do you know that music can help language-learning in autistic children? 🎵 🎼 EU-funded researchers designed an effective intervention programme to improve their speech.🎶🗣️ Learn more. 👉 europa.eu/!cGbwXc #WorldMusicDay

Come see staff in English and Creative Arts dept. who are in the Creative Edge building and in the Arts Centre! English@EHU edgehillmedia Edge Hill Writing Music Production | Edge Hill University

Want to find out more about the Early Language & Communication project and team at Education Scotland?... ahpscot.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/who…

Please RT: this is us! Creative Writing at Strathclyde is growing once again. Open ended contract: Lecturer in Creative Writing w English. This will be a wonderful job for someone. Same team as myself @mariaxrose Andrew Meehan Sarah Bernstein & Steven Veerapen. strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/64…

🚨 Today, the government committed to improving workers rights’ and providing more security for renters! This is a great start, but people facing hunger today cannot wait for long-term measures. Here's the urgent actions we need to end the need for food banks ⤵️ #KingsSpeech

Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).

Vacancy: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English. Department of English & Creative Arts, Edge Hill University, jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… English@EHU

The joys and benefits of #bilingualism | Tobias Jones theguardian.com/commentisfree/…