After thought- I should probably tell you all my topic.
It is based on using music and movement with L1s and L2s in the primary classroom to learn academic content and vocabulary.
Ok, now help me!
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About Me
- Katie Coverstone
- Fremont, California
- I am a first grade teacher at Spangler Elementary in Milpitas, California. I began dancing at the age of 5, and have always incorporated music and movement in my classroom. A dance teacher for five years before teaching in the traditional classroom setting, it was the best way I knew how to teach!
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Kathryn, this is an interesting topic. My suggestion has more with how I would conduct the research...is that too late? Your central question seems to be how music and movement would help your EL students acquire academic language. Right? Hm...I will proceed.
Anyhow, I would pick about 10 "academic words" I would want my first graders to learn. I would then teach that academic language the standard "NON-music and dance" way. And then create a test which assessed whether or not they learned the language ( this would have to be some type of quantitative test---multiple choice). I would then pick ten more academic words, perhaps in the same vein, but not synonyms, and teach them using movement and music. I would have my students test on those ten words using the exact assessment format for the previous test. I would then use...is it ANOVA correlations?...to figure out the results...to see which way produced the best results. Your project could be a year long curriculum map showing how you are going to integrate music and dance to teach your current base program curriculum's academic language to your EL students ( HM has a list of academic language in their ELL Handbook ( well, you have to pick it out).
This seems as though it would produce more tangible evidence than a survey.
You should check out Hip-Hop Phonics.
---Retain-to-Inspire
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