An investigation into the impact of movement and music on learning.

Abstract: This essay investigates what impact different types of movement and music has on overall academic achievement and language learning, both when connected and unconnected to specific curriculum goals and lesson content. The essay looks at both a macro and a micro perspective of the two subject areas to investigate a wider range of possible language learning benefits to be gained from incorporating more movement and music in school, both in and outside of the English as a Second Language classroom. While researchers in these areas agree that academic achievement and language acquisition are benefitted by different types of movement and music, they vary in how and to what degree these benefits show in their results. The essay, therefore, provides a summary of these results and a discussion about what the sum of the results might mean for the Swedish school system.