Can music help teachers and learners in prosodic proficiency? The influence of music training, music aptitude and musical didactic tools on the perception of Dutch word stress by French speakers

Prosody is essential in foreign language oral proficiency since it seems to have an important impact on perceived strength of one’s L2 accent [1]. However, methods to teach it are rather scarce [2] and prosodic difficulties remain in leaners proficiency even after many years of classes. This is for example the case for the French speaking students of Dutch, whether at sentence [3] or at word level [4]. Considering the parallelism between music and language in both acoustic properties and neurological processing [5, 6], we could wonder whether music can help learners in prosodic proficiency. It... Mehr ...