Question about Phrases cds

[Richard Zane Smith]

kweh all,
These have been helpful suggestions. keep 'em coming!
as a NON-trained language teacher also involved in making recordings,
I really appreciate these kinds of tips.
Its very easy to become discouraged by lack of immediate interest
in something so crucial to our tribal identity.

building a *foundation* for language learning seems to be in itself an art
and being an artist ,I'm always seeking to learn new skills.

--organizing mountains of data into "easy to get to" research files.
   (I still cannot make heads or tails out of TOOLBOX!)
--how to spark a hunger in tribal members for learning their own heritage
tongue.
--how to introduce language rules "naturally" without overwhelming learners
   (especially as i'm still learning the complexity of rules myself).
--how much emphasis should be placed on "correctness" orally and
grammatically.

If i wasn't for hearing what others here are doing and the rare conference i
can sneak off to,
It would be all to easy to give up completely. so thanks!

Richard Zane Smith
Wyandotte Oklahoma


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dale McCreery <mccreery at uvic.ca> wrote:

> Taanshi!
> Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including
> too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that
> the phrases are structured.  A large amount of unrelated phrases is
> overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the
> more readily a learner can absorb them.  Most CDs like this are arranged
> by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that
> including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other
> structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would
> make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases.  Even
> on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of
> complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a
> couple phrases.
>
> So, my basic suggestions are:
> 1. include as much as possible
> 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases
> as possible)
> 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of
> similar types of structures frequently.
>
> -dale-
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ilat/attachments/20100526/941a6201/attachment.htm>