Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 .Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

2 M. A in rehabilitation counselling, Islamic Azad University, South Branch, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph.D student in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University Isfahan (Khorasghan) Branch

4 Department of Educational Science, Literature and Humanistices College, assistant professor of Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

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 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
 

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