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Resource Details

Identifier:

CY010O2010

Title

Focus on Form Through Singing in a First Grade Yugtun Immersion Classroom

Description:

University of Alaska Fairbanks master's thesis.

Abstract:

This study examines the impacts of singing as a focus on form in the Yugtun genitive endings. Genitive case endings refer to the case of ownership, such as in the sentence “My mother's eyes.” The belief of this research is that singing will help the students to focus on form in the oral performance of the first grade second language learners of Yugtun. All the students in the classroom participated in the study. Their accuracy and progression were measured prior to teaching two songs with a pretest interview. After teaching of the songs, the students composed couple songs where the genitive forms were examined. A post test and a delayed test were administered after the instructions of the songs. The results support the previous studies that focus on form can provide accuracy to second language development.

Contributors

Oulton, Naniruaq Carol (author)

Date

2010-05

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Restrictions

Contact author for access

Subject Language(s)

Yup'ik, Central Alaskan

LingType

pedagogy

Collection

SLATE
Theses and Dissertations
UAF

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