Abstract
Resulting from the international co-operation in the field of technology there is a growing demand for foreign language skills and, consequently for optimizing language acquisition processes of students of technical subjects.
This paper describes the role of music in language learning processes with technically gifted students, in the realm of the alternative teaching concept of suggestopaedia.
The documented empiric study on the influence of several genres of music on suggestopaedic learning is designed to contribute to the increase of the efficiency of language acquisition processes with students with technical giftedness.
The main aims of the study are:
to demonstrate the effect of various background conditions (genres of music; silence) on cognitive and affective variables during group learning; to describe specific background effects in interaction with selected students' characteristics (gender, foreign language learning ability, musicality, average feeling state).
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