Importance of rhythm and movement in early language learning (CROSBI ID 635411)
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Dobrić, Arnalda
engleski
Importance of rhythm and movement in early language learning
Rhythm and movement are some of the basic elements of speech and somehow their importance is very often neglected in many approaches to early foreign language learning. Rhythm can be observed twofolds: 1/ as the basic pattern of normal articulation movements and b/ in terms of a sentence rhythm. Movement can be considered as an articulatory movement (micromovement) but also corporal movement (macromovement) related to the articulatory movement. Both elements tend to have strong influence on good pronunciation which is one of the most important aims of early language learning. This paper focuses on two topics: 1/ the importance of rhythm and movement in learning language in general and 2/ rarely used possibilities of integration rhythm and movement through songs and nursery rhymes in English classes during two initial years of elementary education. Recordings of one of the used books in a part of Croatian elementary schools are analyzed and discussed in the light of different modern teaching approaches in early foreign language learning as well as in verbotonal method. The analysis shows that: a/ the songs and nursery rhymes are few and not intended for singing or being accompanied with any sort of movement (such as i.e. clapping hands), b/ new vocabulary should be more easily acquired while integrated in music material but the vocabulary used in the songs is not always consistent with pupils’ knowledge. Therefore it might be concluded that music material does not fulfil its teaching purpose and rhythm and movement are not adequately integrated in process of early language learning in the first two years of English classes in Croatian elementary schools.
early language learning; rhythm; movement; nursery rhymes
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2015.
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26.11.2015-28.11.2015
Tirana, Albanija