Singing is a Celebration of Language: Using Music to Enhance Young Children’s Vocabularies

Music engages children in language learning, offering them opportunities to understand and express their ideas and communicate with others in ways that go beyond words. This article, based on two ethnographically-framed studies and the use of two real-life vignettes, demonstrates how singing and mus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kari-Lynn Winters, Shelley Griffin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2014-11-01
Series:Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/23436