ideas for methods course

[isa barriere]

Hi Again Ruth,

here is what I do with "Frogw here are you?".

I split the class into 2 groups.
Phase 1
Group 1
The students receive a copy of the pictures "FRog where are you" and they
are told taht they will be asked to retall the stiry to their class mates
without the pictures in front of them.

Group 2
I explain to the students "Story Grammar" (components and structures) and I
tell them they will listen to a story from group 1 students and they will
have to take it down and check whether they apply the principles of Story
Grammar.

Phase 2
Group 1 students come back to class and individual group 1 students are
place with individual group 2 students.
If you have students who speak the same non-English lg (I have often have
Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking studenst) put group1 students with
group 2 students who speak the same non-Engl. lg  (since Story Grammar is
not onoy about English) they are encouraged to do it in their non-English
lg.

Phase 3
Class discussion: group 2 students discuss whether and to what extent group
1 students follow Story Grammar principles (without knowing it).


Phase 4
Samples of the Slobin corpus on Frog Story CHILDES (different age groups- 4
to 6 sampelsI are examined by the class, and especially with respect to
differences and similarities between the CHILDES samples and the story told
by Group 1 students.

On the whole students love it.

Hope this helps.

Isabelle



On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM, ruthtincoff <ruth.tincoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the recent messages - looking forward to more! Please
> keep posting.
>
> Brian, I am glad to gather these and build them into the teaching
> resources on the childes page. That is a great place to start. I
> currently use the stimuli from the wug study for the activities &
> recruiting table that we host at community events - just for fun, no
> data gathering. The local families enjoy it and the students assisting
> me have to understand why we're using the materials in order to play
> the "game".
>
> Has anyone done a course exercise with Frog Where Are You?
>
> Thanks
> Ruth
>
> On Jun 10, 10:40 am, Brian MacWhinney <m... at cmu.edu> wrote:
> > Dear Ruth,
> >     It would be great if you could pursue this.  You will find some
> things already collected athttp://childes.psy.cmu.edu/teach/index.html
>  > It would be great to add more materials and detailed exercises.  It
> doesn't matter whether or not they make
> > use of CHILDES materials, as long as they deal with language development.
>  Many thanks.
> >
> > --Brian MacWhinney
> >
> > On Jun 10, 2011, at 4:17 PM, ruthtincoff wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I am looking for examples and resources for mini-projects that I
> > > can use for undergrads to learn basic research methods.
> >
> > > The course is psychology research methods. We do these topically and
> > > mine is focused on (no surprise) language development. I have access
> > > to daycare centers, families coming to my lab for structured
> > > observations and looking time experiments, and, of course, CHILDES.
> >
> > > Do you have a research methods exercise on language development that
> > > you would be willing to share? Are there things from the childes
> > > teaching resources that have worked especially well for you? I am glad
> > > to compile and post a summary.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ruth
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