fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

Wed Aug 21 19:12:37 UTC 2013

A conversation between my brother in law and my Nephew, Eithan, when he was
6 years old (French speaking child):

Father: Est ce que quelqu'un a vue l'entonnoir? (=Did someone find/see the
funnel?) (also noir is 'black' in French)

Eithan: Je n'ais pas vue "l'entonne noir" mais "j'ais vue l'entonne orange"
(I didn't find the "l'entonne noir (=black)" but I saw "l'entonne orange"
(The color of their funnel is orange)

Best

Limor

Dr. Limor Adi-Bensaid (PhD)

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders  

Faculty of Health Profession

Ono Academic College

Israel

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Molly, which car?  Audi?? 

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Molly Millians wrote:

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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