1. MUSIC FOR VISUALIZATION Wilson Burgos Aroca M.A. on ELT Methodology Candidate Universidad de Caldas – Universidad Surcolombiana

2. MUSIC FOR VISUALIZATIONORDER OF PRESENTATION Defining music for visualization Advantages and disadvantages Ways of accessing Critical position to music for visualization From theory to practice Research and pedagogical implications References “Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3. WHAT IS MUSIC FOR VISUALIZATION? Music for visualization is the music which is required or regarded as a vital part for visualizing. You can listen to the music and then visualize about a certain issue. You can listen to music and by listening to a specific music you think and visualize about a certain topic by listening to the specific music. Your visualization will be affected by kind of music which you listen. “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ” Oliver Wendell Holmes

4. ADVANTAGES Learner motivation to music. Stimulus of musical, logic-mathematical and intrapersonal intelligences. Development of productive skills (speaking and writing). Lowering of affective filters Learner centeredness Cooperative work Linking syllabus contents with music for visualization. “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” Benjamin Disraeli

5. DISADVANTAGES Logistic difficulties. Variety of musical likes in learners. Lack of theoretical support. Lack of research on this issue.

6. WAYS TO ACCESS Internet. Technological devices to reproduce music. Learners as resources. Classroom environment. Teaching skills. “My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” Edward Elgar

7. TYPES OF ACTIVITIES Drawing according to the music. Creating a story based on the music. Telling visions, feelings or previous experiences based on the music. Writing based on the music. Full class discussion based on what was heard. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp

8. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE You are going to listen to a extract from a relaxing song. Close your eyes, relax and imagine whatever you want as the music penetrates your being…

9. RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Further research must be done on this issue in order to create a solid theory about the characteristics, advantages, disadvantages and pedagogical implications of music for visualization. This technique can lower learners’ affective filter and can develop multiple intelligences. Authentic oral and written communication. Stimulus of the brain and state of peace.

10. REFERENCES Contreras, N. and Méndez, N. (2008). Music for visualization. Power Point Presentation retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/DIEGOFMACIAS Collier, P. (2009, August 26). Slow Down. [Video File]. Video posted to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSgPDKG6bB0&feature=related

11. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION “Of a hundred souls, we are interested in the hundred souls” St. José María Escrivá de Balaguer