Vision
The idea of this project has its origin
in my love for the study of languages and my husband’s passion for music. Thus,
what we plan to do is to create an interdisciplinary educational center where
children can learn to speak several foreign languages (English, French, Spanish
and Italian) and play musical instruments (the guitar, the drums and the piano)
in an original and modern way.
Language teaching will be based on an
audio-visual method, a natural language learning process which supposes first
the exposure to and the work on the musicality of languages. So, from language
learning to music study there is just a step...
Problem
Languages. 1. Schools cover only 1-2 languages, while today’s
globalization put us into a situation where more languages are required. 2. In schools, languages are commonly
taught in a classical way, with a focus on grammar and vocabulary even from an
early stage. Teaching is not always kid-friendly and enjoyable
and children get bored
quickly 3.
Classical
language teaching does not include work on the musical elements of the language
(rhythm, intonation, stress etc.); also, the implication of the body through
role-plays is not something common in the language learning process => depriving
language learning of MUSICALITY and BODY EXPRESSION means depriving it of two
of its most important elements necessary in communication
Music 1. Music can only be taught in special schools;
in
normal schools children do not learn to play a musical instrument but only learn
theory without practice. 2. At
least in our country, in normal schools music is not a subject which is given a
lot of importance by the educational system.
Interdisciplinarity
Again, at least in
our country, education is very little interdisciplinary on a regular basis.
Pupils are not taught how to search for connections between the different
subjects at school or to find possible applications from one domain into
another one (ex. like applications from music to language learning)...
Solution
In
our center we intend to offer children
a multilingual education by teaching English and three other international
languages namely French, Spanish and Italian. Thus, this multilingual education is
supposed to develop their intelligence, make them more open to different world
visions, cultures and perspectives and bring them to a
level of autonomy in learning different languages from quite an early stage. As for the music, its advantages are well known: it helps children develop their intelligence,
their dexterity, maturity, it makes them more disciplined, it helps them
concentrate better, it enhances their creativity, self-expression and memory.
Learning
by using music (rhythmic patterns of sentences) and involving the body
expressivity (movement, gestures, interaction, dance) is a very NATURAL way of
learning, being close to the way that each of us learns his own native
language. The teaching method we use is based on the French method Pourquoi
pas (Henri Sagot) which is used in several European language centers like
the one in Brussels (Alpha Lire et Ecrire) that we have personally come into
contact with.
The
method is quite complex but its originality lies in the following aspects:
involvement of the body in teaching
(through role-playing); focus on audio-visual
perception through listening and watching short cartoons; focus on the
exposure and work on the melodious
structures of a language; focus on interaction,
team work and creative ways of learning; the spiral approach; no classical grammar teaching and vocabulary as
such. Otherwise, modern research underlines the fact that the
use of rhthm favors unconscious
learning, which is the most efficient and develops the artistic side of
personality.
With
this method learning is more natural, interactive, enjoyable, cheerful and
artistic…the bridge to music can be easily done by appealing to this method. We
want to give you a concrete example of how music can be involved in learning
French and French learning can be a start point in learning a guitar chord.
(ex. Honoré tu es là ?- play its rhythm on the drums and guitar)
To put it simply, we will say that our project is unique
for three main reasons:
1. Our center offers multilingual and musical education.
- Language teaching is based on modern, original
and natural techniques.
- By achieving a natural bridge between language
learning and music, our project becomes interdisciplinary in very original
way
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