seyyed nabiollah ghasemtabar; Niyaz Yousefi; Mahboobeh Hosseini; Badrosadat Daneshmand
Abstract
The present research was conducted for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of music education for increasing the development of phonological awareness in preschool children. From the population, consisting of 5-6 years children of the 3rd district of Tehran, 30 children were selected and assigned ...
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The present research was conducted for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of music education for increasing the development of phonological awareness in preschool children. From the population, consisting of 5-6 years children of the 3rd district of Tehran, 30 children were selected and assigned into two groups of experiment and control groups. The intervention group received music education for 3 months (3 sessions per week). Phonological skills of the children of both groups were measured through the Phonological Awareness Scale (Soleimani & Dastjerdi Kazemi, 1384), in the pre-test, post-test, and three months after the intervention period (follow-up). Results of the mixed variance analysis indicated that music education significantly increased the phonological awareness of the children in all the three dimensions of syllable awareness, intra-syllabic awareness, and phoneme awareness. Results also showed that the impact of the intervention had been consistent until the follow-up stage. It can be concluded that music can be used as an effective strategy for the phonological development of pre-schoolers
