The possible link between music and language have always been interested many researchers. They have tried to find whether they affect each other in any way in the language learning process. Eventually, there really seems to be connection between both. For years, music is used as a tool to help learners feel less stressed and more motivated, at the same time it is used to help the learner with their linguistic development. Since birth, babies start to listen and produce sound without distinguishing between music and language, singing and speech. That is, they accept both as a linguistic input. Nursery rhymes and lullabies are some of the first language input that occurs with enough repetition to encourage memorization and therefore acquisition. The use of music is certainly significant to First Language Acquisition (FLA).
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The Use of Music in First Language Acquisiton
( Credit: Engh, D. (2013). Why
Use Music in English Language Learning? A Survey of the Literature. English
Language Teaching, 6(2), 113-127. )
