Music is one of the most important aspect in life it symbolizes creativity and harmony. Music can always be heard anywhere right now. Even parents played music for their fetus, since they believed that music help the fetus brain development. Music also help people try to fix their mood when they are in pressure. Music tempo also effect people heart beat so some people also use it as a therapy. Language acquisition ability will also be affected since it increases people’s mindfulness, but many parents also prohibit their child from listening music, because listening to music for a long time is not good for their kids’ ear. This research is going to show if music can affect children development on language acquisition.
It is proven that music help children to obtain new vocabulary from music lyrics. There is a research where first people take an English test with scale of one to five and then after listening to English music periodically, they take another test to measure if there is an improvement on their English ability. The participant must be able to answer the spontaneous question given by the instructor. The result is 70 percent of the participant experience an increase of 3 point of score in the post test. Even after that the participant still listen to English music periodically for several and still experience and increase of English language skill every week.
Schools use music to teach young children new words, because children show good interest in music and can be easily taught to sing by imitating the teachers. When the children are able to sing the song fluently, then the teachers will start adding movement that resemble the meaning of the song to help the children understand the meaning of the vocabulary in the song. This method was once tested and the children are able to repeat the song and count the syllables even before they understand the meaning. So, if the children didn’t lose interest on music while they were learning, then the children will eventually be able to add and understand new vocabulary without ease.
The Broca’s area and the Wernicke’s area are parts of the brain that is responsible for both music and language acquisition. The Broca’s area is located in the frontal lobe that makes us able to understand information that we receive from our surrounding. The Wernicke’s area is located in the temporal lobe that is responsible to process sound from our ear into information. For Music the Broca’s area is responsible to process the tones and the Wernicke’s area is responsible to create an imagery from the music. And for language acquisition the Broca’s area is used to string word to create sentence and the Wernicke’s area is responsible for the understanding vocabulary and grammar to create sentence. Since music and language is processed on the same part of the brain then hearing music means that they increase their language acquisition ability too.