Monday, October 1, 2012

SETESOL 2012 Session Notes - "Incorporating Sensory Input"

FRIDAY

2:45-3:30

Incorporating Sensory Input: Idea for Teaching to Multiple Intelligences
Jen Ramos and Todd Allen - University of FL     

Multiple Intelligences
     Howard Gardner, 1983
     Different strengths & learning styles
          (Verbal, visual, bodily, musical, mathematical & more)
     Language learners "stripped" of linguistic/verbal intelligence

          Access other ways of knowing in ESL classroom!
          Allows language learners access variety of rich material
          Activate HOT

Focus on Reading and Writing or Listening and Speaking
     read and produce written texts
     comprehend input and produce comprehensible speech
     expand your 'text' and vary stimuli

Reading
     Non-verbal text
               practice concepts  (ex. add of book hugging woman)
                    main idea, thesis, supporting details, intended audience, purpose, reader response '

Engage and Evoke!
     Music, paintings, sculptures, etc. 

Lesson Ideas
     Language Task: use everyday vocabulary and prepositions of location to describe a photo

     Increase cognitive demand: a recall activity

     Introduce Interference: Who lives here? What helps you make this inference?

Use the Nose!
     Writing: write a compare and contrast paragraph using comparative adjectives
     Speaking:

Listening
     Unconventional sounds, musical compositions, and speech
          Practice purpose, audience, listener, response and descriptions

Music: Evokes poetic and emotional responses
     Metaphor and simile
     Adjectives of mood and sentiment
     Musical vocabulary
     Reflection
     Imagination
     Many students knowledgeable about music!

Language Task: Try a free-write to music and see what students produce
Language Task: Describe a scene from a musical selection

Fingertips:
     Vocab building: Texture and material words
          Books provide the definition, but not the experience
     Language Task: Feel objects in a bag and find vocabulary word
     Language Task: Describe what you feel; direct partner to objects

Get every "body" involved!
     Language Task: students act out words and concepts
          abstract words (ex. allocate)
          idioms (ex. rain on someone's parade)
          phrasal verbs
          transition words (nevertheless)
          helps solidify nuanced concepts
     *kinesthetic learning, total physical response

OTHER IDEAS:
     buy recordings of random sounds - choose certain kinds of sounds and put them together… students have to write a play or story about it
     play a sound - some computer programs have bank of sounds - describe "what is happening right now"
     public service announcements - Canadian government… for writing and speaking 

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