Summary:
Breathe
new life into ESL classes by capitalizing on the power of music for
self-expression and social communication. This workshop focuses on
music as both content and process for developing classroom
instruction and task-based projects. View sample lessons and locate
resources for both low tech and high tech music-related activities.
Full Abstract:
Music
is a form of universal communication that offers an emotionally
satisfying, intellectually stimulating, and culturally uplifting
vehicle for learning English. As a content area, it affords an
interdisciplinary opportunity for thematic approaches that are
historical, anthropological, literary in viewpoint, or which apply
the principles of musicology and musicianship to the language
learning experience. Through the process of music creation, its
appreciation and performance, teachers can get their students to work
cooperatively, and communicate more meaningfully.
This
workshop will show how an ESL language course can adopt music
activities at any level of language proficiency for developing their
students' English language skills. The innate enjoyment of music
helps in learning to communicate through self-expression and through
a variety of learning styles. While mainly practical in aim, the
session will briefly explain the process of integration of content,
learning strategies, and also developing intercultural competence via
several sample music-based instructional tasks. Addressing
instruction that supports language growth, and creative
self-expression is a special consideration.
Nowadays, music-related
content and the tools to create, record and share musical
performances are widely accessible through the use of computer technology,
and mobile IT (iPod, iPhone, and iPad), as well as with human voices, our
bodies and simple hand-made instruments. Resources for planning and
adding further music-based activities will also be presented. This
workshop can benefit any teacher, whether novice or experienced, in
applying content-focused, task-based instruction more successfully,
particularly those who have a strong interest in music of various
genres.
Resources:
Making Instruments:
Shakuhachi: the Japanese bamboo flute
How to make a PVC (plastic pipe) shakuhachi
http://www.fides.dti.ne.jp/~sogawa/englishpagepvc.html
What does the shakuhachi sound like? Listen to a beginner player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjJ6DomgoA8
How to play the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lupPlCAkao
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