1. LANGUAGE PLAY, LANGUAGE LEARNING
Kiki Chen

2. LANGUAGE PLAY, LANGUAGE LEARNING
GUY COOK
Part I
Part II
The forms of language play:
rhythm and repetition in children’s verse
The implications for applied linguistics and
language teaching.

3.  Most studies in linguistics have tended to
neglect the child’s linguistic environment.
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
 Cook suggests that is not right to neglect the
“uselessness’ of verbal play in studying
language.

4.  How does a pre-linguistic child respond
when he/she listens to rhymes or verses
that are pervasive to their environment?
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE

5. KIDS SONGS: THIS LITTLE PIGGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrH47btpV0

6. KIDS SONGS: ROUND AND ROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00N6CXDc2A4&feature=channel&list=UL

7.  Children are sensitive too, and enjoy playful
language before they can fully understand its
content.
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
 Even non-functional uses of language, like
repetition, rhythm, and nonsense words ,are
manifestations of linguistic play.
 Children are predisposed to respond to rhythm,
rhyme, and repetition.

8. READING PEEPO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5b8FhY1smQ

9.  Familiarization through the repetition, rhyme,
and a simple beat help children to memorize
and produce language above their current
ability.
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
 Verse provides a model to imitate and practice
control over vocalization.
 Progression from verse as rhythm and
interaction to verse as grammar and its
meaning.

10. RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxJCsv6qsGc&feature=related

11.  The functions of verse provide a path into
language acquisition.
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
 Help the child to gain control over difficult new
language and ideas.
 Characterized language play has strong
parallels in the rhythms of bodily behavior(heart
beats, breathing) and daily routines.
 Language play should be related to creativity and the
imagination that relates to learning to speak the
language .

12. COCK A DOODLE DOO!
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-i8Fazqjo

13.  Evidence shows that verse rhythm stimulates
the brain to release pleasurable endorphin.
RHYTHM AND REPETITION IN CHILDREN’S VERSE
 Our liking for verse has other advantages for
our species, which continue into adulthood such
as an increased ability for social coordination
and increase in memory power.
 Rhythmic language stimulates a greater co-
ordination of the left and right hemispheres of
the brain and enables richer cerebral activity.

14.  Examples of Chinese Musical Rhythmic
Material.
(Unit Shopping) (Make your own to fit your
lesson!)
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND
LANGUAGE TEACHING.
 Student’s presentation- Rap
( Encourage students to product)
 Different age students they all enjoy the
language play and able to produce.
 Learning is Fun ! Language teaching is fun!

15. MUSICAL RHYTHMIC-KIKI ( UNIT SHOPPING)
http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=17359&project_step=77854

16. K-5 GRADE STUDENTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW00eJmWhg&feature=youtu.be

17. WRITING CHEERS

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19. LANGUAGE PLAY, LANGUAGE LEARNING

20. STUDENT’S PRESENTATION- RAP HIGH SCHOOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl9b4Gffuuw

21. DISCUSSION
 Do you think the playful use of language
does not end with our childhood, but
continues throughout our lives? Why or why
not?
 It fulfills a major function of language,
allowing the human ability to adapt: as
individuals, as societies, and as a species.

22. DISCUSSION
 Do you agree that language play should not
be thought of as a trivial activity, but as
central to human thought and culture, to
learning, creativity, and intellectual inquiry?

23. DISCUSSION
 Will you consider adding rhythm or repetition
into your current language lesson plan?