discussion essay

Advantages and Disadvantages Listening Music in Learning Process at Homes.

            Music is the art of arranging tones in an orderly sequence so as to produce a unified and continuous composition.It has different meanings for different people. Music is unique in each person's life. Music is a mean of relaxation for some, while others simply enjoy listening to the sounds, melodies, and rhythms that music brings to their ears, minds, and hearts. It is why some people listen to music when they learn because music can relax their mind, but some people do not like to listen to music when they learn because music can annoy their concentration. There have been several debates listening music in learning process at homes.

            According to scientist from England Dr. Emma Gray said that when you listening the music like Katy Perry’s song, can give an effect to help your brain to remember a new fact more easily, can relax your brain and increase your happiness. Studies have shown that listening to the right kind of music may help ease your mind and help you concentrate.Another study showed that music engages certain areas of the brain, asserting it to pay attention and prevent you from falling asleep when studying because when you study in quiet situation make you more easily to falling asleep. Also, when our body realizes we are tired and we want to stop studying, it sends signals to the brain to stop for a break. Listening to music competes for our brain's attention, and can help us to override those signals of fatigue, though this is mostly beneficial for low- and moderate-intensity study. During high-intensity study, music is not as powerful at pulling our brain's attention away from the pain of the workout.

            On the other hand, some people do not like listening to music at learning process because music really annoy their concentration.A study was carried out at the University of Wales,  where 25 people aged 18 – 30 were instructed to memorize a list of letters under various listening music what they liked, but it is not effective because they only can repeate three letters. They like more studying at home in quiet situation. So, they can remember many letters. Music only increases their spirit to learning again when they feel bored not help in their study. Some people can not be focus to one subjects, they get confused what should they hear at their priority. It is why they like more studying at home with quiet situation especially when tomorrow will be examination. They really need a quiet situation because they want to be focus at remember their material of subject that will be examined. Listening music at learning process especially at home it is not effective because listening music may distract you from effective memorising.

            Listening music can help you to find a new idea and more creativity. Listening music is the sweet spot for creativity. Even more than low noise levels, ambient noise apparently gets your creative juices flowing, and does not put us off the way high levels of noise do. The way this works is that moderate noise levels increase processing difficulty which promotes abstract processing, leading to higher creativity. In other words, when we struggle (just enough) to process things as we normally would, we resort to be more creative approaches. According to cici, when she is doing her assignment at home without listening music, she feels bored and can not find a new idea also stuck in their creativity, but after she listens music, she can get a new idea and make something more creative from listening music because music helps her to remind her about what should she do in her assignment.

            Otherwise, studying with listening music can influence your emotions. For example, when you listen the music with mellow genre, you can feel sad and also destroy your concentration. Sometimes, some people can write the lyric from the music that they hear because the lyric imagines what they feel at time. One study showed that after hearing a short piece of music, participants were more likely to interpret a neutral expression as happy or sad, to match the tone of the music they heard. This also happened with other facial expressions, but was most notable for those that were close to neutral.Something else that is really interesting about how our emotions are affected by music is that there are two kind of emotions related to music: perceived emotions and felt emotions. This means that sometimes we can understand the emotions of a piece of music without actually feeling them, which explains why some of us find listening to sad music enjoyable, rather than depressing. Unlike in real life situations, we do not feel any real threat or danger when listening to music, so we can perceive the related emotions without truly feeling them almost like vicarious emotions.

Changes in their emotions really annoy for them. They can not be focus at their assignment anymore, but their focus in what they feel now.

            Ultimately, your study habits are your responsibility. Be wise and surround yourself with things that will stimulate and motivate your mind to learn and understand concepts, practice them and commit them to memory. It is up to you to decide whether music will help or hinder your mind from doing your assignment. So, give it a go, see what works for you and have a little fun in the processbecause remember, studying should be a balance between fun and structured learning. If you do not like doing your assignment, you can not do it, but if you enjoy doing your assignment, you can do it very well, even though you listening music or not you can do it. The main key is you must love what you do. Listening music only helps you to decrease your stress, your mood, you bored. In addition, music only helps you to make you happy doing your assignment and make you more creative also make the situation more colorful when you are doing your assignment.