Voice Instruction Enhances Children's Spatial Ability: Tonal (Thai) Speaker Case Study INSTRUCTION VOCALE AMÉLIORE LA CAPACITÉ SPATIALE DES ENFANTS : UNE ÉTUDE DE CAS SUR LA LANGUE À TONS (THAILANDAIS)
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of individual music instruction featuring the singing on the spatial reasoning of the tonal (Thai) speaker children. Thirty Thai children were equally assigned to one of two conditions, singing (N=15) or no music (N=15). Children in the music group received weekly individual instruction at their private music programs for a period of 3 months. All children were pretested and posttested with two spatial tasks: Mechanical Aptitude and Spatial Relations Sub-tests including Matching Part and Figures (MPF) and Spatial Views (SV). Means and standard deviations scores of music group were significantly higher than no music group in both tasks after 3 months of lessons (Music group, MPF, Mean = 8.33 (±.62) and SV, Mean = 9.33 (±.72); No music group, MPF, Mean = 5.07 (±1.34), SV, Mean = 6.40 (±1.84), respectively. The posttest scores of the music group was significantly greater than those of the no music group in both tasks (MPF, t(14) = -8.009, p < .0001; SV, t(14) = -5.12, p < .0001), respectively. The improvement for the no music group was presumably due to maturation. This study suggests that learning music is an important developmental activity in tonal (Thai) speaker children’s spatial ability. Neurophysiological basis of this finding is however needed to explore changes in the structure and function of the tonal (Thai) speaker children’s brain in relation to the neural circuitry involved in judging spatial skills. Keywords: Brain; Spatial ability; Music education; Voice instruction; Tonal speaker Resume: Le but de cette etude etait de determiner les effets des cours de musique individuels, caracterises par le chant, sur le raisonnement spatial des enfants qui parlent une langue a tons (thailandais). Trente enfants thailandais ont ete egalement attribue a l'une des deux conditions, le chant (N = 15) ou pas de musique (N = 15). Les enfants du groupe de musique ont recu un enseignement individuel hebdomadaire en accord avec leurs programmes de musique prives pour une periode de 3 mois. Tous les enfants ont ete pre-testes et post-testes par deux tâches spatiales: l'aptitude mecanique et les tests apparentes aux relations spatiales, y compris l'assemblage des parties et des figures (APF) et les vues spatiales (VS). Les notes moyennes et les notes standards du groupe de musique etaient significativement plus elevees que celles de groupe de pas de musique dans les deux tâches apres 3 mois de cours (groupe de musique, APF, moyenne = 8,33 (± 0,62) et SV, moyenne = 9,33 (± 0,72); groupe de pas de musique, APF, moyenne = 5,07 (± 1,34), SV, moyenne = 6,40 (± 1,84). Les notes de post-test du groupe de musique ont ete significativement plus elevees que celles du groupe de pas de musique dans les deux tâches (APF, t (14) = -8,009, p
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