A DO-RE-MI of Learning Techniques for Primary School Students
A DO-RE-MI of Learning Techniques for Primary School Students

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental objective of the research is to highlight the effectiveness of music in repetitive learning sequences of isolated words, extracted mainly from the texts of third graders, within Romanian Language and Literature classes. The study included 28 third-grade urban students aged between 9 and 10. To assess the ability to update information through reproduction and recognition, a short-term memory evaluation test was used; it consisted of a list of 15 words out of which 66.66% were taken from a literary text recently analyzed? by students within the Romanian language and literature discipline. The whole process was carried out in four stages of work; in the first stage, pupils passed the test without music; in the later stages, during the realization of the sample, music from recordings proved to be effective on concentration and memory enhancement. To investigate the effectiveness of music in learning, a questionnaire containing a total of 21 items was used. According to the results obtained, the use of music material in repeated learning situations leads to improvement of the updating capacity, both through reproduction and recognition. Taking into account the students' answers to the questionnaire items, we emphasize that they appreciate positively the existence of a music strain that ensures both a relaxed state of learning and conditions for easier encoding. In future research we aim to elevate the boundaries of the present study and diversify the music repertoire to investigate its effectiveness in more complex learning situations

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