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Yoo, hello welcome back again to my WordPress Blog. Miss me? Yep, I hope so. All right, so today I want to continue my journal. Last Week, my journal was done, and today I wan to continue it. So, the title is “The Effect of Music on Reading Comprehension”, but it’s only the Introduction, for the Thesis, Methods and etc I’ll continue it next week.

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Introduction !

This study investigated the effects which two different genres of music (classical music and jazz music) and music with and without the presence of lyrics, had on the reading comprehension test scores of third level students. Previous research in the area has shown mixed results on how music can interfere with the completion of a cognitive task such as reading comprehension. A reading comprehension test was administered to 50 third level students in five different conditions, no music, a classical music, a lyrical classical music, a jazz music and a lyrical jazz music condition. Students were also asked to complete a STOMP (Short Test of Musical Preference) and a survey questionnaire for get an understanding for the type of music listened to while studying and students preference for listening to music while studying. The results of the study showed that there was no significant difference in the reading comprehension test scores of students

A number of studies on the effects of background music on reading comprehension have been completed in recent years by psychology researchers. These studies have been conducted as a result of differences in scores on national achievement tests, which indicated students in recent years did not perform significantly better than did student in past decades (Schneider, 2007). However, there are mixed results on how the use of music interferes with the completion of a cognitive task such as reading comprehension. In general, students have perceived a decrease in performance on learning assignments in the presence of background media, but an increase of performance on paper and pencil assignments (Beentjes, Koolstra, & van der Voort, 1996). This study aims to contribute to recent findings by Anderson and Fuller (2010) to find the effects which different genres of music (classical music and jazz music), and lyrical and non-lyrical music have on the reading comprehension test scores.

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