[NLA] Music hath charms: New from NCLE

[Miriam Burt]

You know that instrumental music can charm snakes and that the music of
a harp put Jack's giant to sleep. You have probably also heard that
college students in a research study exhibited enhanced spatial
reasoning ability after listening to Mozart. But what does this have to
do with learning English? 

NCLE's latest digest, Using Music in the Adult ESL Classroom, by Kristin
Lems, offers suggestions for using music and music-based activities to
develop and practice reading and writing, listening comprehension,
vocabulary, and speaking, and to expand cultural knowledge. 

It is available on line at http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/music.htm or
from NCLE at the address below. 

Happy reading (and listening)!
Miriam Burt
Associate Director, National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20015
(202) 362-0700 (phone)
(202) 363-7204 (fax)
miriam at cal.org
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