The influence of music stimulation in the development of ESL in children between 5 and 6 years old in the BRITÁNICO INTERNACIONAL School during one school year 2007-2008

Abstract

The first years of life of children are vital for their development, for that reason, the education is making capable professionals for the attention of children from 0 to 6 years, that is inside the objectives of the Initial Education, concerned with individual differences, in such way it is helping the infants to develop all their capacities and attitudes in an holistic way. Revisions of diverse studies in the fields of education like psychology and music have demonstrated that stimulation of music improves the reading learning, language (included foreign languages), mathematics, motor area and academic performance, also other areas of the human being development. The assimilation of music to early age has been a study object from different disciplines that commit it, as the pedagogy, the psychology and the music in itself. The different learning and the way of access of knowledge, as well as the cognitive, affective, psychomotor and musical, can it turns favored when children begin in an early way in the learning of music. Music relaxes and at the same time it favors the mental activity, besides of being fun it helps to learn; it's for that reason that the present project gives importance to the stimulation of music as a methodological strategy to the develop of English as acquisition of a second language in children of 1rst of Basic. This project presents several elements that allow to evidence from the theory to practice, why and for what reason children must learn English through the stimulation of music, likewise how teachers can be participant of the teaching of this area. This investigation is characterized for being a feasible project that investigates the concrete problem and it elaborates a solution proposal, that is to say, that it's a social investigation of development.