The song I have attached is Despierta Niña. I chose this song because, after much research, it seemed to be one of the more popular and simpler songs in Spanish. Although I did not understand the song in its entirety, I gathered that it was a very sad love song.
Listening to a song is very different than just listening to a conversation. The tone of voice is essentially the same throughout the song, whereas in a conversation, you can gather cues by changes in tone/pitch. If I were to teach listening using a song, I would find one that was very simple--repeats the same phrase over and over with a few variations. I also know that I would have to play the song multiple times. I feel that it would be beneficial to give them part of the lyrics, but leave words out so that they would have to listen carefully to understand what is being said. Even if they did not hear the missing word, they could use clues in their written lyrics to try to make a guess as to what the word was.
I do not know if listening to an interactive conversation would help me, so I may try this out in the near future.
How might you teach listening, using a song or other passage, to students based on your experience? How does listening to a song differ from listening to a conversation or speech? Would it have helped if you listened to something interactive (like a conversation in which you actively participated)? Why or why not?
ReplyDeleteI have answered your questions by adding to this blog entry. I will go back and do the same for the past blogs. I don't know if you get an update when I edit the blog, so I thought I would just tell you this way.
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