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Yule, George. The Study of Language. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Yule George’s book on the study of language is a book for people beginning to learn
about language. The author helps beginner language learners understand such a complex topic clearly. With many different chapters from phonetics to syntax. The specific topic that will be spoken in the essay is Chapter 13 on Language Acquisition. His claim is that from infancy, humans begin to learn a language and mimic it.
The author is a well-known linguist that is known for his works on pragmatics and
discourse analysis. The way this chapter will be incorporated into the paper which will give a general understanding of how language is first acquired a.
The author’s claim will be challenged a bit in the paper. It will be argued that although
humans learn a language in infancy and it is quite hard to learn a language when much older, but it isn’t impossible.
Dolan. W. Eric, ‘Listening to the music you love will make your brain release more dopamine,
study finds’, PsyPost, February 2nd, 2019.
The author’s source is a review of recent discoveries from the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science put it into much simpler words. The author provides the recent study and experiment used on 27 individuals to test if dopamine is released more when listening to music you love.
The page on which the author published his review, is a reliable page in which different
people read through reliable new studies and interpret what was read in much simpler terms for the audience to understand better.
This piece will be integrated into the essay in a fashion that agrees with new research on
the release of dopamine from the mind due to music and its benefits.
Evans, Olivia Guy, ‘Serotonin vs. Dopamine: What Are the Differences?’, SimplyPsychology,
September 14th, 2021.
The author, Evans, discusses the difference between Serotonin & Dopamine, as well as
the similarities and differences between the two chemicals that are released from the brain.
The author is a student who has posted under the website SimplyPsychology, which is a
well and reliable source to learn about science and psychology. It is also reviewed and fact-checked by someone with a Ph.D. in the review in order to keep its credibility.
This source will be integrated into the essay to give an understanding of the two brain
chemicals and what they benefit when released. It will be compared with music and listening to music can release these chemicals.
Smith, G. Dana, ‘At What Age Does Our Ability to Learn a New Language Like a Native
Speaker Disappear?’, Scientific American, May 4th, 2018.
The source is about language acquisition and at what age is best to begin to learn one or
more languages. The author’s claim is that prior to the age of 18, is the best time for one to begin learning a new language if they want to become fluent in it.
The source is a highly reliable newsletter that posts articles on scientific studies given to
the writers from scientists themselves much like Albert Einstein.
The source will be integrated into the essay in a manner of disagreeing with the author on
some points but agree with other points from the author.
Bradley, Darcy H. & Sayakhan, Najat Ismael. “Nursery Rhymes as a Vehicle for Teaching
English as a Foreign Language”, Journal of University of Raparin, June 1st, 2019.
The author presents the use of nursery rhymes in an English classroom for foreign
speakers and how they can be used. The author claims that the use of nursery rhymes in classrooms can benefit a student who is trying to learn a language.
The author of this paper uses sources she has found in order to explain the use of nursery
rhymes in language learning. This gives the readers a general understanding of how they quite possibly came about learning a language.
This source will be used to back up my paper and agree with the fact that music, songs, and/or nursery rhymes are helpful in abetting language learning.
Jung, Narea. “The use of K-Pop in teaching Korean Language”, Nanyang Technological
Program, Singapour.
The author gives pointers on how to incorporate foreign songs (specifically K-Pop) into a classroom to teach
students the language and how it’s helpful for the students. Includes using Korean songs with a specific title in order to teach the topic for that lesson. Dissecting each word in every song and translating into English and articulating it for the students to understand how to pronounce it, is helpful because it instantly sticks in the brain.
The author's source is reliable because it's based on her experiments and research that she had conducted in class.
Through the student's reactions to the lessons, she was able to give positive results.
This source will be integrated into the essay in order to justify the use of music in language learning and its benefits.
By learning songs and understanding the lyrics, it's easy to learn a language.
Degrave, Paulina, ‘Music in the Foreign Language Classroom: How and Why?’, UCLouvain,
Belgium, May, 2019.
Altenmüller, Eckart & Schlaug, Gottfried. ‘Neurologic music therapy: The beneficial effects of
music making on neurorehabilitation’, The Acoustical Society of Japan, 2013.
Pretorius. E. ‘Corticosteroids, Depression and the Role of Serotonin’, Department of Anatomy,
University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2004.
Maratos, Anna, Crawford, Mike J. & Procter, Simon. ‘Music Therapy for depression: it seems to
work but how?’, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011.
World Health Organization. Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders: Global Health Estimates. Geneva; 2017.
Chen, Lucia Lushi, Magdy, Walid , Whalley, Heather & Wolters, Maria Klara, ‘It’s Not Just
About Sad Songs: The Effect of Depression on Posting Lyrics and Quotes’, EasyChair Preprints, August 16th, 2020.
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