Association Between Children’s First Language Skills and Musical Sensitivity: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Present study aimed to investigate the potential association/relationship between children’s listening comprehension, speaking ability, reading comprehension and writing ability of Bengali as first language (L1) and their musical sensitivity (music perception skill and musical performance) at primary level. The study was exploratory in nature and based on quantitative data. A correlational design was employed to examine the relationships in a sample of 35 children of VII standard. Researcher administered several age-appropriate standardized tests to measure language skills/proficiency and musical sensitivity among children. The findings demonstrated significant positive relationships between children’s first language skills, music perception and musical performance at primary level. Researcher found that gender did not play any role in deciding children’s first language skills (listening comprehension, speaking ability, reading comprehension and writing ability), music perception and musical performance at primary level. In present work investigator had made several recommendations for further studies.