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Promoting a More Meaningful Use of Grammar Structures through Songs, Rhymes, and Chants

Promoting a More Meaningful Use of Grammar Structures through Songs, Rhymes, and Chants. By Isabel Cristina Jiménez Gómez. Context . Institución Educativa San Antonio 42 fifth graders Beginners Grammar Translation Method CT did not know English Highly motivated students. Question.

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Promoting a More Meaningful Use of Grammar Structures through Songs, Rhymes, and Chants

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  1. Promoting a More Meaningful Use of Grammar Structures through Songs, Rhymes, and Chants By Isabel Cristina Jiménez Gómez

  2. Context • Institución Educativa San Antonio • 42 fifth graders • Beginners • Grammar Translation Method • CT did not know English • Highly motivated students

  3. Question • Grammar translation + lack of input + difficulties when using grammar structures = How to promote a more meaningful use of grammar structures through songs, rhyme, and chants?

  4. Objectives General Objective • To promote a more meaningful use of grammar structures among students through the implementation of songs, rhymes, and chants. Specific Objectives • To determine how meaningful materials for students can help them improve their use of grammar structures through the implementation of songs, rhymes and chants. • To establish relationships between pre, while, and post stage activities and students’ performance regarding grammar structures by performing written and oral tasks. • To assess students’ grammar performance while using meaningful materials by representing songs and modifying the songs’ lyrics. Research Objective • To evaluate and analyze how the implementation of songs, rhymes, and chants can be meaningful for students’ grammar understanding.

  5. WHAT TO DO THEN? • Adapt resources with songs/rhymes/chants taking into account their interests and likes and present them to students. • Plan lessons in which structures are presented through the following procedures as suggested by Davanellos (1999): Pre-stage, While-stage, and Post-stage activities. • Propose alternative evaluation instruments to assess students’ performance.

  6. IMPORTANT FACTORS • Planning the materials • Planning the classes according to the Ss’ needs. • Recycling the Ss’ previous knowledge to make learning more meaningful.

  7. Implementing the materials • Ss’ responses to materials • Selection of the materials • Confidence to use the language • Opportunities to practice. • Ss’ grammar structure understanding. • Developing the activities correctly.

  8. Assessing the Ss’ grammar understanding • Excellent performance in both final products, writing and miming. • Comprehension of the song content. • Improvement of grammar structure use. • Implications of audio materials in listening and pronunciation • Interpersonal abilities • Improvement of listening and speaking skills.

  9. Conclusions and Suggestions • Plan the lessons bearing in mind what students want to learn. • Take the time to carry out the stages for better results. • Expose the students to the materials as much as possible in order to get them used to the target grammar structures.

  10. HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED SOMETHING LIKE THIS? • STUDENTS DON’T REMEMBER THE STRUCTURES • THEY FORGET THE VOCABULARY • THEY CONFUSE THE WRITTEN FORM OF A WORD AND ITS PRONUNCIATION • CLASSES SEEM TO BE BORING AND NOT MOTIVATING

  11. LET’S TRY TO DO THIS • Birds can flybuttheycan’t crawl • Snakes can crawl buttheycan’twalk • Hippos can swimbuttheycan’tsing

  12. Retrievedfromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2UMQXSFnw

  13. More practice • MONDAYS, MONDAYS • WHAT DO YOU DO ON MONDAYS? • ON MONDAYS I WALK TO SCHOOL • TUESDAYS, TUESDAYS • WHAT DO YOU DO ON TUESDAYS?

  14. diy! • LIKES AND DISLIKES + FOOD • LAST WEEKEND ACTIVITIES • PERSONAL INFORMATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

  15. THANKYOU! • ISABEL CRISTINA JIMÉNEZ GÓMEZ

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