<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Great idea! Will you please share when you collect these?<br><br></div>My grandchild looked down his mom's shirt at her cleavage and said, "That a butt?" He had a gap that needed filling...<br>

<br></div>Best, Roberta<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brunilda@gmail.com" target="_blank">brunilda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br><br>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.<br>

I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way or if people have some favorite ones they use.<br>Thanks all.<br><br>Bruno<br>Bruno Estigarribia<br>Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures<br>

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