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Engaging ESL/Literacy Young Adults Through Music WORLD BEAT Make a Change. Move Forward.

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Page 1: World Beat: Engaging Young Learners with Music and Language

Engaging ESL/Literacy Young Adults Through Music

WORLD BEATMake a Change. Move Forward.

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03/23/10

Why Are We Here?

Nora Ready, Michael Yue ­ Vancouver  Community College, British Columbia, Canada

World Beat Project – pilot project to re­integrate at­risk, late­arrival, older immigrant youth into education

Focus of this presentation – 3 key developing components

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Who Are We?

A Model of Change – “Make a Change, Move Forward”

An Integrated Team

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03/23/10

Who Are Our Learners?

Learner profileMulti­level classroomHighly heterogeneous group

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Integrating Music and Language

Paul Bray, Music Instructor: his views on integrating music and language learning

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Using First Languages

Cohort 3’s rap song in their L1 (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Jarai, Shanghainese Chinese, Greek, Portuguese)

Video clip of Ria, Chinese student, in her recording

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Fostering Student Empowerment

Drama workshop video – conflicting views about “appropriate clothing” for 2 different Iraqi immigrant young women

Joel and Sundus (elder brother and younger sister), and Sandra and Sundi (mother and daughter)

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Interested in further discussion?

Website for further sharing: http://worldbeat­tesol.wikispaces.com

On the website: PowerPoint, Resources List, student songs, discussion forum, links to World Beat website and YouTube channel

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