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perfection or errorful fluency?

April 26, 2017fluency perfection

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perfection or errorful fluency?

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I think we’d have to look for a better grammar performance from the talking class than from the drill class. That would be the toughest of the targets, but would speak volumes about human learning. Cindy H-G ====================== 95/09 From -> Beverly Maass Subject: Spanish pronuncation idea On the first or second day of a first Spanish year class I do an activity that I call “Vowel Songs”. First I teach the students the sounds of the Spanish vowels–that the vowels say their own names: AH, EH, EE, OH and OO (a, e, i, o, u). Then the students have to form groups of 3 to 6 persons, decide on a song and put the sounds of the vowels to music. They can choose any song, nursery rhyme with a tune or current rock and roll tune, but they must sing 4 lines of the song using only the 5 vowels sounds instead of the actual words of the tune. The sounds can be in any order but all of them must be used. I always demonstrate with “Row row row your boat”. My tune goes like this: ah,