Dr Katherine HALCROW, University of Canberra, Faculty of education, Australia
Seminar organized by Anna Fiveash
Presentation in English – Pôle AAFE – UBE
Over the last 50 years, researchers and theorists from a broad range of disciplines have become fascinated in the connections between music and language. From philosophy to anthropology, linguistics, semiotics and aesthetics and each with important implications for education. Each perspective has highlighted a unique aspect of the connection, including in the neuroscientific and cognitive sciences where a unique rhythm-grammar link has been explored. An interdisciplinary perspective spotlights the ways in which the perspectives converge around similar concerns and also the departure points. Each also highlights certain implications for the classroom. If there is a music-language link, what are the implications for young learners of language?
In this presentation, Dr Halcrow shares the findings of her PhD research in which she looked at the music and language link and the scope for its applications in early and primary years Australian language classrooms.
Dr Katherine Halcrow is lecturer in English language and literacy, curriculum and the arts in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra. Dr Halcrow completed her PhD studies at the University of Sydney in which she looked at the interdisciplinary connections between music and language and the implications for the teaching of writing, developing a framework for rhythm-grammar connections.