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AI InsightThe results of the study demonstrate that none of the three measures of fluency showed any significant differences between or within the groups,suggesting that singing does not necessarily have positive influences on speech fluency.
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Abstract
Singing hasbeen suggested to havea positive influence on the speech fluency of people with various neurological disorders, such as stuttering, aphasia, and autism. Again, research demonstrates the benefits of singing as a teaching method, through which many aspects of language can be taught or improved, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation. However, there are not any studies as to the effects of singing on the speech fluency of people with no neurological speech disorders.Thus the study aims at investigating any possible influences of singing on the speech fluency of Turkish EFL teenagers. The study was carried out with 10 high-school students(control n=6,experimental n=4)studyingat a private school in Turkey. Demographicinformation of the participantswere collected via a questionnaire. To identify the utterance fluency,audio recordings of the participants’ speech productionwere collected. The speech samples were produced subsequent to watching short film clips after the participants in the study group were given two songs each week for 5 weeks. The results of the study demonstrate that none of the three measures of fluency showed any significant differences between or within the groups,suggesting that singing does not necessarily have positive influences on speech fluency.