Blog 3

Music education helps kids learn to read — study

I picked this article because I've heard that the arts in schools have an effect on students learning and ability to perform tasks. This is related to language because it is said that having music education helps students learn languages. Whether or not this is supported is discussed in the article. What I found most interesting is that being taught music may only help to learn some languages. Maybe this is because once people are at a certain age and their minds aren't as plastic, it becomes harder to learn a second language, therefore music would only help to a certain extent. I happen to agree with this article. It isn't entirely proven that music 100% helps students learn a second language. Although it isn't completely dis proven either. I think it's nice that the article isn't trying to sway people onto one side and that it actually takes all the data from research into account. This article did want to make me learn more about if music helps and if there are any studies out there that completely prove this idea or tear it to the ground. This affects the world because knowing a second language is unbelievably helpful and finding ways to make it easier for kids to learn them would be very beneficial considering that it's much easier to retain knowledge of a second language when one is young.