The Effectiveness of Learning Rhythmic Poems on the Performance of Children’s Auditory-Verbal Memory

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• zahra taghan ahmadabadi ¹
• Ali Mohammadzadeh ¹
• sadegh jafarzade ²
• seyyed mahdi tabatabaee ³

¹ Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

² Assistant Professor, Department of Audiology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

³ Ph.D. student in Biostatistics, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

10.22067/ijap.v8i1.56689

Abstract

Purpose: The Effectiveness of Learning Rhythmic Poems on the Performance of Children’s Auditory-Verbal Memory
Method: This is a randomized controlled trial study with the participation of 80 male and female students of the sixth grade of primary school (2015-2016) randomly divided into two 40-member groups of experiment and control. Students of the experimental group listened to recorded rhythmic poems of their books daily for 8 successive weeks. Before and after the intervention, the auditory–verbal memory of both groups was evaluated with the Rey Auditory – Verbal Learning Test, and data were analyzed using SPSS 21, the Mann-Whitney U test, paired t-test, and the Wilcoxon test.
Findings: Students of 11-12 years of age range were selected equally in terms of gender. In the posttest, the mean score of total learning of auditory-verbal memory in the students of the experimental group (10.6± 1.54) was significantly higher than that of the control group (8.40 ± 1.68) (p = 0.028). Also, in the posttest, the mean score of total learning, immediate recall, delayed recall, and recognition in the experimental group was significantly higher than the pretest (P> 0.05).

Keywords

• Rhythmic poems
• Auditory-verbal memory
• Primary school students

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