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ORAL TEXT TYPOLOGIES

Prof. José A. Álvarez Valencia

Assignment Sheet: Presentation of Song

As is the core of this class, the main purpose of this activity is to provide a context for you to improve and practice in a meaningful way language skills in one of the various discourse typologies. This activity will also focus on the pedagogical dimension since as future language teachers you might want to draw on music to motivate your students.

The task

Your task is to choose song and prepare an activity that focuses on any aspect of language (e.g. language skills ­–speaking, listening etc.– or subskill: grammar, vocabulary, spelling etc.). You can choose any song of your liking, but don’t forget your audience. Remember, the rhetorical strategies we have discussed in class.

Grading scheme

This assignment is worth 15% of the semester grade.

You will be graded on language use (grammar, pronunciation, fluency), the multimodal quality of the materials used, the pedagogical appropriateness of the activity and your ability to present an argument concerning the pedagogical principles behind the activity (credibility, clarity, preparation, timing)

Note: if you are using audio or audiovisual material (Youtube), please make sure you download it to a flash drive. Remember that the Internet connection is very slow on campus. You could use http://keepvid.com/ to download Youtube videos to your laptop; however, there are many other programs that will do this for you.

Procedure

This assignment is to be done individually. Besides the performance, you won’t have to submit any product.  You are free to distribute the time as you wish. There will be two periods to your presentation, one is the display of your song and the second will be your pedagogical activity. The pedagogical activity should not go beyond 5 minutes.  The assigned reading (Techniques for using songs in foreign language classroom) might give you ideas about what to do. Be creative!

Order of presenters: At random (everybody must be ready for April 8.

Note: if you are not present at the moment you are called to present, you will miss your chance to present.

Classroom conduct: refrain from interrupting your classmates by leaving the classroom, chatting, whispering or any other distracting behavior.

Make notes and be ready to ask and respond to meaningful questions!