fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Gordon, Peter]

When my daughter Lily was about 3 years old, she was told by someone that
she was being "shy" when she was quiet.  Later, when I wasn't answering
her, she said to me: "Daddy, stop being shy to me".  Later, we were going
to my office in the elevator, which had a voice that announced the floors
and said "going up" or going down".  When she heard this, she said: "Oh,
this elevator talks!  Our elevator at home doesn't, it's a SHY elevator."

Peter Gordon


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Lulu Song <lulusong at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really enjoyed reading the examples everyone so generously shared and I
> saved all of them. Here's one I use in my class (I might have learned about
> it from our list):
> "A fairy tale by adorable French girl!"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHgcj0-pXw
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Celeste Kidd <ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu>wrote:
>
>> I like using YouTube clips for teaching.
>>
>> Here's one I use when I talk about "chunking" (acquiring the meaning of a
>> chunk of words together):
>> http://youtu.be/Fk-1mla0LeU
>>
>> And another good one for turn-taking, prosody, and pragmatics:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpDilztRBE
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Thomas Hills wrote:
>>
>> My son once asked, "Dad, can I get a banjo that you play like this?" Then
>> he made the motion for a violin.
>>
>> The anecdote is published here:
>>
>> Hills, T. (2012).  The company that words keep: Comparing child and
>> adult-directed language.  *Journal of Child Language*, 1-19. Available
>> online at doi:10.1017/S0305000912000165.****
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:44:00 AM UTC+1, Bruno 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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