fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Eileen Brann]

Bruno
I have been a speech-language therapist for a long time (am a new professor) and my favorite story was an unintelligible 4 year old with a language disorder who yelled "Lets get naked!" as he entered the speech room, perfectly intelligible, Everone in the therapy clinic laughed. His Mom noted that his Dad said this at home, so he was repeating it in speech.
I did not want to hit reply all on this one.
I begin teaching a research course next week and will look for atrention grabbers! Great idea
 
Eileen Brann, PhD
Assistant Professor
Communication Disorders
Governors State University
University Park, Illinois

On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:44 PM, Bruno <brunilda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I like to use attention grabbers the first day of class in my language acquisition courses. I usually mention the fis phenomenon, McNeill and Braine on negative evidence, and some fun errors (for example from Erika Hoff's and Eve Clark's books, with attribution). Students laugh and become really interested in figuring out why kids say the darnedest things.
> I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way or if people have some favorite ones they use.
> Thanks all.
> 
> Bruno
> Bruno Estigarribia
> Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
> Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program
> Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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