Auditory perception of 6- and 7-year-old children from Poland and Czech Republic – comparative analysis

Abstract

The article presents the results of an auditory perception study carried out with the use of Mira Stambak’s Reproduction of Rhythmic Structures, aimed at assessing the development of auditory perception. The study consisted in reproducing rhythmic structures with different levels of difficulty. The aim of the study was to assess the level of auditory perception in 6- and 7-year-old children from Poland and Czech Republic. For the purposes of the analysis, the respondents were divided into four groups, taking into account their age and place of residence. The article presents the results of the analysis of the assessment of the general correctness of the performance of tasks in each group due to the varying level of difficulty. As a result of the conducted research, it was found that the age and place of residence of the examined children determine the correctness of the performance of tasks of varying levels of difficulty assessing the level of auditory perception. The results regarding the correctness of simple tasks were not varied depending on the respondents’ age group and place of residence. In the case of tasks with an average level of difficulty, the results were comparable in both examined age and territorial differentiated groups. As regards the performance of the most difficult tasks, there were statistically significant differences between the compared groups with the highest results among 6- and 7-year-olds from Poland. Also, with regard to the total number of correctly performed tasks, there were statistically significant differences between the compared groups.