What are the benefits of music for children? The benefits of music education are manifold.
It is found that learning music is helpful to the study of other subjects and can enhance children's necessary ability in other fields. ? When children begin to receive formal education, singing and listening to music have a very good effect on them. ? Mary Luhrison, executive director of the National Music Business Association Foundation (NAMM), said.
Kenneth Guilmartin, the founder of Music Together, an early childhood education program, said that music activities can not only train the sound or fingers of playing musical instruments, but children can also acquire many other abilities (such as vision, hearing and muscle groups) at the same time.
? Music learning can promote all learning activities. This is not to say that listening to Mozart's concerts makes you smarter, but that music has a very comprehensive promotion. ?
Music contributes to language development.
Luehrisen believes that for children aged 2 to 9, music plays a very good role in promoting language development at this critical age. ? Children need to encode sounds and words when they are in contact with the world, and music education helps to strengthen their natural coding ability. ? An environment full of music is very beneficial to children's language development. ? Luehrisen added, what are the natural abilities needed? Strengthen, practice and encourage. ? Music education in families and schools has played a role in this respect.
According to the American Children's Music Workshop (Children? The role of music education in language development can be shown in the brain. Recent studies have clearly pointed out that music training can promote the development of the left brain, which is often responsible for language processing. Music can connect brain circuits in a specific way. And the way to connect familiar songs with new information can firmly imprint these information in your mind. ?
The relationship between music and language development is also beneficial to children's social development? The development of language has also strengthened the part of the brain that processes music. ? Kyle Prut, a professor of child psychiatry at Yale Medical School, said? Language ability is the foundation of social ability. Music training will strengthen language skills. ?
Music increases wisdom.
A study by E Glenn Schellenberg of the University of Toronto found that the IQ of 6-year-old children who take music and piano lessons every week has improved. Schellenberg gave some children piano and vocal lessons for nine months, and gave some children drama lessons for nine months (to study whether studying art will also improve their intelligence), while the rest didn't take any classes. Schellenberg tested the IQ of these children when they were in the first and second grade of primary school.
Surprisingly, the IQ of those children who took music lessons exceeded that of the other two groups. Children who have taken drama classes have no higher IQ than those who have not taken any classes.
Music makes the brain work harder.
Studies have shown that musicians' brains work in a very different way from ordinary people. Some good neuroscience studies show that children with music training have stronger neuronal activity than children without music training. Musicians need to call many brain functions when playing music. ? Eric Rasmussen, director of the children's music department at Johns Hopkins University, said.
In fact, a study conducted by Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College, and Gottfried Schlaug, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, found that children who received music instruction and practice once a week for 65,438+05 months improved their speech discrimination and fine motor function, and at the same time, the corresponding parts of their brain scanning images also changed.
Music improves spatio-temporal intelligence.
Some studies have also found the relationship between music and spatial intelligence. These studies have found that music can increase children's understanding of visual elements, just as they are doing geometric math problems.
? We have strong data to prove that music education can really improve children's spatio-temporal intelligence. ? Prut of the performing arts medical association said. These abilities are essential for solving multi-step problems in architecture, engineering, mathematics, art, game theory and computer science.
Music improves academic performance
A study published in 2007 by Christopher Johnson, a professor of music education and music therapy at the University of Kansas, found that compared with ordinary students, primary school students with excellent music education scored 22% higher in the Chinese standard test and 20% higher in the math standard test.
In addition to improving grades, Johnson's research also found that high-quality music education can also play a positive role in children's grades. Luehrisen explained this phenomenon in two sentences: schools with high-quality music education also have high-quality teachers in other disciplines. If many people in your environment are doing creative and enjoyable things, then you will also want to work hard. ?
Music can not only make children's attention better, but also increase their basic memory ability. ? Formal music training is related to other cognitive abilities, such as verbal recall. ? Prut said,? People who have experienced formal music training are very good at memorizing oral information. ?