SHORT TERM MEMORY AND THE ROLE OF BACKGROUND MUSIC

To investigate the role of background music, 12 students of pre-intermediate level of Shokouh Language Institute, Bandar Abbas Branch, were chosen. 10 videos of a working memory task called n-back classified into 10 groups were prepared. The background music was administered alternatively during 10 sessions. The Participants had to check mark if they see the related turn back while their eyes were on the monitor and write the symbol X if it was not. The Friedman test results indicated that background music does not play any significant role on short term memory and recall among EFL students. Based on the results of this study, background music did not make any significant progress in the process of reminding the vocabulary through the word recalling of 3-back task, nor did it hinder performance. As considering their mental capacity, students of foreign language were confronted with new pleasing situation in which they could feel enjoyable learning.