fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Molly Millians]

I taught first grade many years ago.  A group of 6 and 7 year old's  were
looking at a kid's book of the human body.  After a few minutes, 1 child
exclaimed, "Oh my god, they named a car after that!"


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Morgan, James <james_morgan at brown.edu>wrote:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> In addition to other things, I like to tell the following story about my
> daughter:
>
> When my daughter was 19 months old, her productive vocabulary consisted of
> four words: "mama", "dada", "yaya" (gloss 'doll'), and "wawa" (gloss
> 'dog'). She was far below age norms (and parental expectations!), and we
> were beginning to worry about possible language delay.
>
> Fast forward four short months: on the way out of the pediatrician's
> office following her 2-year-old check-up, she turned to me and said (not
> her first sentence by any means, but a particularly memorable one), "You
> know, Dad, what I like about going to the doctor's office is getting to
> play with all of the toys in the waiting room."
>
> I use this anecdote showing developmental change as a springboard into
> discussion of any number of topics: rapidity and uneven tempo of
> development, individual differences in development, differences between
> production and comprehension, dangers in basing accounts of acquisition
> exclusively on production data, and so forth.
>
> Best,
>   Jim
>
> James Morgan
> Professor
> Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 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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