This book looks at what kinds of effects music have on the performance of a second language reading comprehension task in Taiwanese college students. An experiment involving 123 participants from a medium size college in southern Taiwan was conducted where the participants performed a reading comprehension task with either classical music, hip hop music, or with no music in the background. The results of the study indicated that the reading comprehension score for the control group was significantly different than the reading comprehension score for the hip hop music group. This showed that...