Teaching Foreign Languages through the Arts

1. Teaching Foreign Languages through the Arts Karima Benremouga San Jacinto College Central Karima.benremouga@sjcd.edu

2. How do you reach 2nd language learners? • What are some examples?

3. Have them perform. • Sing it, act it out. • Model. • Act out concepts using full body movement. • Use technology. • Use realia. • Use hands-on activities. • Do not be afraid of repetition. • Encourage co-operative learning. • Encourage participation and make it safe to make mistakes. • Be uninhibited. • Be flexible.

4. Introduction… • What are the arts? • Why the arts?

5. “Respect for who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we are going is the core of creating a classroom that is conducive to learning and being human.” Merryl Goldberg

6. Teachers should learn how to… • engage students mentally and physically in the learning process; • provide students opportunities to explore, investigate, and discover; • create new ways for students to present their ideas • create new ways toassess students’ knowledge • be less inhibited in the classroom

7. Teachers … • see students in new ways • reach more students • are involved in some risk taking

8. Students… • get excited about learning • are exposed to the arts • are motivated and involved in learning • are involved in some risk taking

9. creative thinking kindergarten 85% 10% 2nd grade

10. Ginsburg & Opper, 1988 • To promote genuine understanding, the teacher should therefore encourage the child’s activity. When the teacher attempts to bypass this process in various ways—for example by lecturing at a class of young children—the result is often superficial learning. Perhaps this is one reason why so much of what is taught in schools is immediately forgotten after the school year ends. By contrast, genuinely active learning can lead to a more solid and long-lasting understanding.

11. movement • Clap=1 • Stomp=10 • Spin=100 • Military March • Hand game

12. Songs in the FL classroom… • develop listening and reading skills-enjoyably! • teach natural pronunciation in a efficient manner. • generate enthusiasm for learning in the classroom. • provide ready-made class activities, review exercises, and homework assignments. • easily embed new vocabulary and grammatical structures in the conscious and unconscious memory.

13. Singing • words • phrases • concept • repetition

14. Jazz chants

15. developed by Carolyn Graham Provide language learners with a rhythmic means for improving speaking and listening skills.

16. “Brother John” tune Verb with preposition à: penser à Disjunctive pronouns:lui, elle • Alinepense àPaul, Alinepense àPaul • Ellepense àlui, ellepense àlui • Paulpense àAline, Paulpense àAline • Ilpense àelle, ilpense àelle

17. Your turn… • Spanish? • German? • Italian? • Japanese? • Chinese? • Arabic? • tune? • words? • objective?

18. Jacquot dit…

19. La sala de clase

20. poetry… Word Cinquain • 1st line: a word or two to name the topic • 2nd line: two words or three that describe the topic • 3rd line: three or four words that express action • 4th line: four or five words that express personal attitude • 5th line: a word or two to rename the topic

21. poetry… Word Cinquain A cat Full of mischief Charges, dances, pounces Brightens my longest days A wonder

22. poetry…Tanka • 1st line: 5syllables • 2nd line: 7 syllables • 3rd line: 5 syllables • 4th line: 7 syllables • 5th line: 7 syllables

23. poetry…Tanka Drifting in the sky Clouds come and go in patterns I look to the sun The darkness hovers around Slowly rain begins to fall

24. poetry…Haiku • 1st line: 5 syllables • 2nd line: 7 syllables • 3rd line: 5 syllables

25. poetry…Haiku Flowers wave to me As I pass them in the field Gentle, swirling wind

26. Events in students’ lives provide some of the impetus for writing and sharing poetry. greeting cards, graduation, birthdays, holidays draw pictures, then write poems…

27. Images en folie (Mad Libs)

28. History quilt…

29. Extraterrestrials

30. role play

31. Different intelligences

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