The Effect Comparison Between Listening Music Instrumental (Classic) and Listening Song While Reading

The Sixth Group

Akmas, Ary Putra Utama

Hakim, Desy Harfani

Hafizah, Khuzaimah Tul

Meldayanti

Munawarah

Major of English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teaching,

State Islamic University of Alauddin Makassar, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is about the effect of reading while listening instrument music and Listening song . Studies in listening music, its a interest method which can improve reading ability. Sometimes,The student only can focus to their materials if they are reading compherension while listening music. Many experiment in another journal show that in reading while listening instrumental music train the student performance to do their tasks in carefully. The highlights showed the different between the attetion and concentration in reading in listening genres of music especially in music classical (instrumental music). The result of this study is showed the impact on music while reading with a higher intensity is more effective just than  without  background  music.

Key Words: Listening Instrumental (Classic), Listening song, The    comparison between Listening Instrumental and Listening Song

Introduction

We choose this title because we see a lot of students always listening music while reading and we want to know what’s the effect. Studies on the effects of background media on the learner’s reading performance is an important area to study in some parts of the world because it is a common trend for many students to have activities such as reading with listening hiphop and classical (instrument music) in the background while they are concentrating on their reading. For that reason, one of objectives in this study is Effect Comparison Between Listening Instrumental (Classic) and Listening Song While Reading.

  

Research study Music is used to extract attention the participant in study. The student reading with listening 2 genres music. But there are experiments that the experts has done relating to listening music while study especially in reading.

It showed that playing music such as hip-hop music in the background has a greater effect on the concentration during the reading comprehension task when compared to light classical music. However, it was surprising to find that the control group performed better than the classical music group. Perhaps it was because the melodies in the light classical music that the participants heard became a form of distraction. However, this was still in accordance with the original hypothesis and with the idea that music that is perceived as distracting will affect task performance and concentration”. (Peter Tze – Ming Chou, 10).

The effects of listening to different types of music while taking a reading comprehension test were measured and compared to a negative control of no music. (Alexander, Firouzbakht, Glennon, Lang). A variety of research has been conducted on the effects of different types of music on cognitive abilities. Many of these studies are based upon the Mozart Effect, which claims that listening to classical music has an advantage over other types of music on learning. (Laurel Harmon, Taryn Pickwick, 2008).

According to a study done by Furnham and Bradley (2002), background music can have a negative effect on the performance of complex cognitive tasks.

Review of literature

Several studies have found that many students today are immersed with media technology and this leads to the problem of how well students can study. In a paper presented at the National Media Education Conference, Ballard (2003 p.3).

One-third of the students reported that they talk on the phone, instant message, watch television, listen to the radio or music, or surf the internet for fun while they are doing homework (Azzam, 2006 p.3).

The term music reading is used for the act of decoding the symbols of staff notation using a musical instrument (Wolf, 1976).

Students of all ages use different study methods to maximize their studying, each preferring their own technique. Some students listen to a specific music type while studying, while others can only study if there is complete silence. Here we will compare the Securities comparison of inflicted from 2 Namely, musical instruments and music.

A.    Listening Instrumental (Classic) while Reading.

Research shows that listening to music while reading will cause a lot of positive effects.

1.  Listen to classical music can be helped children learn more longer and absorb more information hearts reading.

2.  Variation melody and tone on classical music that creates conditions conducive when children reading.

3.     Some studies prove that music can be helped Andari focused mind. The same thing can be applied Andari when reading a book, learn, or when considering something. Andari can practices research singer showed to Andari Andari with or kids how to play music while they learn.

4.    The part of the brain used for reading book review differ part of the brain which are used for the review to listen to instrumental music. because of that, listening to instrumental music which does not interfere with activities reading books (Jim Taylor).

5.    A study proves orangutan Frequently listen to music also instrumental hearts will focus any more circumstances including reading.

B.     Listening Song while Reading

According to Clifford Nass, a communications expert from Stanford University , it is because 

a part of the brain used to listen to the song lyrics together with parts of the brain used to 

process the word (read). This means that when you are learning (reading) while listening to a 

song , your brain trying to process two things at the same time , such as listening and 

interpreting lyrics , and your reading comprehension. As a result, your understanding of the 

readings was inhibited by the duty to interpret the lyrics. 

There was a experiment. They divide into 2 groups. The first group is instrument group and the second group is hip hop music. The first group listened to music with a mixture of string and wind ensembles, vocal and piano music. And The second group listen CD that was used in this study was a selection of songs from a CD album entitled Best Hip Hop - The Collection. This CD contained many of the most popular Hip Hop songs produced in 2006. Reviews These consisted mainly of fast songs or up-beat rhythms and tempos. The CD alternated randomly between male and female artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, The Pussycat Dolls, Nelly Furtado, 50 Cent, just to name a few. A one way factorial ANOVA was used to analyze the results for the research questions whether on different types of background music, especially light classical music and hip hop music, have an effect on concentration during a reading comprehension task. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

The mean score for the classical music group was 64.41 with a standard deviation of 14 019. However, the mean score for hip hop music group he was a bit lower at 58.32 and a standard deviation of 14 412.

Methodology

For making this journal, we perform the method of collecting journal of the internet. We collect three journals discussed about the effect on listening music while reading. From the three journals, we combine to make a new journal beside on our mind. This journal is completed we made On Monday, june 20^th 2016 at 09.13 pm.

Result and Discussion

The result of our discussion is listening instrument music is very good (effective) if we do it while reading. And listening song (Hip hop) while reading is not effective because hip hop song  has fast tempo, heavy bass beats in the something we would consider high intensity and its so exhausting. 

Upon completion of this experiment, the music type did have significant effects on the reading comprehension performance of an individual, but further studies are needed to confidently determine if heart rate, and mean brain activity, and beta wave frequency were also significantly affected by music genre.

Conclusion And Implication

The main goal of the study is to compare the variables of classical and hip hop music to determine which type of background music creates the most amount of interference and which type of background music creates the least amount of interference.

In conclusion, it more research and testing must be done to say for certain different music types have an effect on individuals reading comprehension. The participants were told to ignore the background music during the reading comprehension task, the distraction effect occurs not because the participants were listening to the music classical music, but because the attention was unconsciously being “drained” from the participants. This could be a new type of interference in the limited capacity theory called the attention drainage effect.

References

Alexander, Jennifer, Peter Firouzbakht, Lauren Glennon, McDaniel. Lang  Effects Of Music Type On Reading Comprehension Performance And Other Physiological Factors. University of Wisconsin Physiology 435 laboratory, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI, USA 53703.

Alexander, Firouzbakht, Glennon, Lang (2010). Attention drainage effect: How background music effects concentration in Taiwanese college students. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 36 – 46.

Gudmundsdottir, Helga Rut, Lang (2010). Advances in Music Reading Research. University of Iceland, School of Education, pp. 2.