- Anton, R. J. (1990). Combining singing and psychology. Hispania, 73(4), 1166–1170.
- Bowen, T. (1982). What is Suggestopedia? New York, NY: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
- Brand, M. (2009). Effectiveness of music on vocabulary acquisition, language usage, and
meaning for mainland Chinese ESL learners. Contributions to Music Education, 36(1), 73–84. - Brustad, K., Al-Batal, M., & Al-Tonsi, A. (2011). Al-kitaab fii ta‘allum al-‘arabiyya (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University.
- Butzlaff, R. (2000). Can music be used to teach reading? Journal of Aesthetic Education, 34(3/4), 167–178.
- Cass, G. & Piske, A. (1977). Pedagogical pop: A practical guide to using pop music in English language teaching. Praxis des Neuscprachlichen Unterrichts, 24(2), 131–139.
- de Groot, A. M. B. (2006). Effects of stimulus characteristics and background music on foreign language vocabulary learning and forgetting. Language Learning, 56(3), 463–506.
- Gassner-Robert, S. (1980). Songs as a linguistic and cultural resource in the intermediate Italian class. South Australia: University of Adelaide.
- Guglielmino, L. M. (1986). The affective edge: Using songs and music in ESL instruction. Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 10, 19–26.
- Hedge, T. (2000). Teaching and learning in the language classroom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Jolly, Y. S. (1975). The use of songs in teaching foreign languages. Modern Language Journal, 59, 11–14.
- Rashen, S. (1983). The din in the head, input, and the language acquisition device. Foreign Language Annals, 16, 41–44.
- Mizener, C. P. (2008). Enhancing language skills through music. General Music Today, 21.
- Mora, C. F. (2000). Foreign language acquisition and melody singing. ELT Journal, 54(2), 146–152.
- Murphey, T. (1992). The discourse of pop songs. TESOL Quarterly, 26, 770–774. ––– (1990). Song and music in language learning: An analysis of pop song lyrics and the use of song and music in the teaching English to speakers of other languages. Bern, Switzerland: Verlag Peter Lang AG.
- Osman, A. & Wellman, L. (1978). Hey teacher! How come they’re singing in the other classes. In R. Light & A. Osman (Eds.), Collected Papers in Teaching ESL and Bilingual Education: Themes, practices, viewpoints (pp. 115–123). NY: Teachers College.
- Patel, A. D. (2003). Rhythm in language and music: Parallels and differences. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 999, 143–143.
- Rose, C. (1985). Accelerated learning. New York: Dell.
- Salcedo, C. S. (2010). The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall, delayed text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal. Journal of College and Teaching and Learning, 7(6), 19–29.
- Schellenberg, E. G. (2005). Music and cognitive abilities. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(6), 317–320.
- Schön, D., Boyer, M., Moreno, S., Besson, M., Peretz, I., & Kolinsky, R. (2008). Songs as an aid for language acquisition. Cognition, 106, 975–983.
- Slevc, L. R. & and Miyake, A. (2006). Individual differences in second-language proficiency: does musical ability matter? Psychological Science, 17(8), 675–681.
- Speh, A. J. & Ahramjian, S. D. (2009). Teaching without a common language: Synchronicities between the pedagogies of music and second language acquisition. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, 2(51), 53–58.
- Sposet, B. (2008). The role of music in second language acquisition: A bibliographical review of seventy years of research, 1937–2007. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.