world beat: engaging young learners with music and language
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Engaging ESL/Literacy Young Adults Through Music
WORLD BEATMake a Change. Move Forward.
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
Who Are We?
A Model of Change – “Make a Change, Move Forward”
An Integrated Team
03/23/10
Who Are Our Learners?
Learner profileMultilevel classroomHighly heterogeneous group
Integrating Music and Language
Paul Bray, Music Instructor: his views on integrating music and language learning
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
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)
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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