Some Benefits of Extracurricular Musical Education for Primary Schoolchildren

Abstract

-Participation in extracurricular activities allows students to get involved in diverse activities. These activities promote social and academic success, foster a sense of commitment to a cause or purpose, and enhance life skills. This paper studies the effects of extracurricular musical education on primary school children. It also provides observations and the results of a brief survey of teachers. The findings reveal the benefits of extracurricular musical education in the development of schoolchildren as it enhances memory, augments creative and cognitive skills, improves imagination and increases emotional understanding and expression.

Advantages of Extracurricular Drama Activities in Foreign Language Teaching

“…Exciting environment of dramatization leads to learners' language improvement and facilitates creativity [Curtis, Howden, Curtis, McColm, Scrine, Blomfield, Reeve & Ryan, 2013]. The use of music in drama activities helps create an emotionally warm, creative atmosphere [Kuimova & Semchin, 2016]. Participation in dramatization furthers communication and writing abilities [Erdogan, 2013;Dundar, 2013].…”

Slobodno vrijeme i glazba

“…To je, prema našoj procjeni, rezultat koji pokazuje da je to područje na kojem bi trebalo još raditi kako bi se učenicima u što većoj mjeri omogućile prednosti koje donosi bavljenje glazbom i koje smo identificirali u prvom dijelu našeg rada. Brojnija ponuda glazbenih aktivnosti i snažnije animiranje učenika za uključivanje u iste nužni su jer su istraživanja (Xu, 2017;Kuimova i Syomchin, 2016;Hille i Schupp, 2015;Menard, 2015;Singh i Mishra, 2013;Küçük, 2011) pokazala dobrobiti bavljenja glazbom, poput poboljšanja ponašanja i školskog postignuća, inteligencije, otvorenosti i ambicioznosti, samopouzdanja i samoizražavanja, društvenih vještina, pamćenja, kreativnosti, kognitivnih vještina i cjelokupnoga osobnog razvoja.…”