1 Tips, Tricks, & Techniques: Helping Students Learn, Use, and Recall Kerisa Baedke Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Minneapolis, Minnesota 2010 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Minneapolis, Minnesota 2010

2 How do you solve a problem like María? How do you teach a child to conjugate? How do you make her see all that she’s meant to be? How do you help her agree, command, and negate? Oh how do you solve a problem like María? How do you help a student understand?

3 Our job can be more difficult at times than that of Mother Superior and the good sisters. It is our task to help students move concepts and ideas from their short term to their long term memory. I’ve heard it described as moving things off of a student’s working desk and into her filing cabinet, where she can find them whenever she needs them.

4 Spanish Chants - o- amos - as- áis - a- an Yo soy Nosotros somos Tú eresVosotros sois Ud./él/ella esUds./ellos/ellas son Uds./ellos/ellas son ellas son

5 A E I O U Arbolito de Perú Dime cómo te llamas tú A E I O U Arbolito de Perú ¿Cuántos años tienes tú? Rhymes suggested by CSC ‘09 attendees A E I O U El burro sabe más que tú. How and where you are, This is when you use estar. ¡Lugar, lugar, lugar Siempre usamos estar! This & these have t’s That & those don’t Far away has the “a”

6 A Rhyme for Spanish Stem-changing verbs give their old stems the boot. 8 stems change, 2 keep their root, to help remember, draw the boot.

7 Y más Izquierda, derecha, Delante, detrás, Cerca, lejos, Y algo más. Abajo, arriba, Enfrente, encima, Y ahora muchachos, Se acaba la rima En enero hace frío En febrero también En marzo hace viento En abril está bien En mayo hay flores En junio el amor En julio vacaiones En agosto el calor En septiembre hay neblina En octubre el tronar Novienbre trae lluvia Y diciembre el nevar

8 Games Card game - 99 Flyswatter vowels Verbs patty-cake Dice games Bingo

9 Gestures Questions Tildes Hay Reflexive verbs La familia

10 Graphics / Visuals Nohaynadie Negative bridge

11 Footwear for verbs

12 A shoe for every occasion Boot Stem-changers in Spanish -er & -ir verb conjugations in Spanish First cousins Shoe Stem-changers with an irregular yo Sandal / sole -ir stem-changers in the preterite

13 Boots, boots, it’s all about the boots

14 My cousin & me

15 Metaphors A wedding A play the subjunctive el pretérito vs el imperfecto

16 Mnemonic Memory Devices Words or phrases to help students memorize a lot of material, generally lists. They are helpful for learning vocabulary or lists of rules. You generally take the first letter of each word and either arrange them to make a word or you assign a word to each and you make a sentence. I have some mnemonic devices that I give students, but I prefer having students make up their own.

17 Mnemonics DISHESDISHES ARAR RERER ABERABER STARSTAR ABERABER Los verbos irregulares en el presente del subjuntivo While we do the DISHES this is what we say: Haya, vaya, sea, Sepa, dé, esté.

18 More Mnemonics PLACEPLACE erception ocation ction ondition motion Uses of the verb estar

19 Y más WEDDINGWEDDING ish / ill motion oubt / enial esire eneral (prepositions) egation mpersonal expressions Usos del subjuntivo

20 Student Mnemonics Los Pueblos Invasores en España I - iberos C - celtas F - fenicios G - griegos C - cartagineses R - romanos V - visigodos M - moros Ignacio comerá frutas y gazpacho con Raúl Valdez mañana. Isabel cuenta fuegos grandes cuando Ramón va a mirarlos.

21 Music Share with a neighbor how you use music in your language classroom. Here are some of my favorites. While students enter. While students work in pairs. While students test. As stories To review vocabulary and structures. To present cultural information

22 Sayings & Expressions “In the no” Are you included in the nosotros in the question? Y yo, y yo, y yo Anybody & I is the nosotros (as) form of the verb Ir is an -ar wannabe Ir wants to run with the in crowd. So it pretends to be a regular -ar verb “var.” Dar is an -er/-ir wannabe in the preterite

23 Sing-Along Time ¡Cantemos ya!

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