THE EFFECT OF MOZART SONATA (BACKGROUND CLASSICAL MUSIC) ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of background Classical music (Mozart Sonata) on Iranian EFL learners’ speaking proficiency. The main question this study tried to answer was whether using music as a background might enhance Iranian EFL learners' speaking proficiency at intermediate level. To answer the questions, 64 students from Shokoh institute of Tonekabon, Iran participated in this study. They were selected from among 100 students via an OPT (Oxford Placement Test) .32 of the participants were males and 32 were females and they were randomly assigned to four groups.16 males and 16 females for the two control groups and 16 males and 16 females for the two experimental groups. The experimental groups were taught and tested speaking patterns in a music background, but the subjects in the control groups were taught and tested in no music background over a period of two months. A t- test was run to see if there had been any significant differences between the speaking proficiency of groups in different condition. The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the speaking performance of the music groups and the non-music groups and the music groups outperformed the non- music groups on the speaking test.
Authors and Affiliations
Parivash kivi, Omid Pourkalhor, Mahmoud Moghaddam
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