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Singing workshopAMEP Consortium Day
Nov 12 2010
Anne Smith Carmel Davies, Sharon Duff
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Using song in the ESL classroom brings several intelligences together at the same time and strengthens the learning process-
hopefully leads to PMA
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WHY SONG??• Song is good for teaching rhythm, connected
speech and some features of intonation
• Song is good for picking out and working on difficult phonemes.
• Songs stick in your head.
• Songs carry culture.
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• The emotion attached to song make it easier to remember.
• Singing /chanting is pleasurable and interesting - increases endorphins which make people relax and feel good.
• We can listen to and repeat a song many more times than a standard dialogue.
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• Language in song is closer to spoken language than written form - recent discourse theorists have noted that spoken language has poetic structures eg. The use of repetition.
• Language teaching has used the written form as the model, when actually song is much closer to everyday speech!!
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Song reaches learners with left and right brain strengths
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• Successful performance in a second language requires competence in the kinesic (body motions) and prosodic(accent, intonation and rhythm) forms of the new language
And........
It’s fun!!!
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MY ISLAND HOMEas sung by Christine Anu
Six years I’ve been in the city And every night I dream of the sea
They say home is where you find itWill this place ever satisfy me
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For I come from the salt water peopleWe always live by the sea
Now I’m down here living in the city With my man and the family
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My island home My island homeMy island home is waiting for me
My island home My island homeMy island home is waiting for me
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Now the boring stuff …• Grammar points• Six years I’ve been in the city (I’ve been in the city for 6 years)• Every night I dream of the sea• Now I’m down here living in the city• Now make 6 sentences about yourself• Eg. I’ve been learning English for 2 years._______• I’ve been ___________________________ I’ve been
__________________________ • Every night I _________________________ Every day I
________________________• Now ____________________________ Now
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TRANSPORT SONG
You gotta validate mate
You gotta validate my friend
You gotta validate everyone
Or the Inspector will take your name
and they’ll send you a great big fine
And you’ll lose $156 dollars
So
You gotta validate mate
You gotta validate my friend
You gotta validate everyone!