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| Title | What to Do with Songs, Part 2 |
| Body | What to Do with Songs, Part 2: Highlighting Grammar and New Vocabulary This is just what we do before reading any new piece--poem, news article, short story, recipe. Most of the time this comes AFTER the listening activities posted last week. Decide ahead of time which grammar items need to be pre-taught, especially if they are new grammar. Obviously you can choose to remind about past grammar items, too. Present all new vocabulary. Have students scan certain songs for any cognates or any derivatives of known vocabulary and try to guess the meaning. Compliment all serious attempts to guess even where wrong. Even adults I teach will make mistakes like saying "descubridor" means discovery--until they get a good handle on suffixes; so I like to tell them that they're really close and remind them that it takes a while to recognize suffixes and use them accurately. Coming next week, Part 3: Treating Songs as Literature Barabe, B. WHAT TO DO WITH SONGS. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Nov. 2006). |
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