Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, January 21 (text/video All-media reporter Tian Tian, intern Gao Zhi, Ouyang Ningke) mentioned the regional dialect, many people feel that it is earthy and obscure, in fact, the dialect also has its own unique charm. Hunan Liuyang Daowu Primary School is well versed in this way, so that the dialect will not fall among the younger generation. The school combined dialects with nursery rhymes and changed them to fun recess exercises. The 2,700 students sang nursery rhymes in different local dialects. After the video of the dialect nursery rhyme was posted on the Internet, netizens liked it.
Today, the reporter contacted the initiator of the dialect nursery rhyme of Liuyang Daowu Primary School and listened to her tell the story of this "language feast".
Dialect into the classroom, children are "spokespersons"
"One two three four five six seven, Ma Lan blossom twenty-one, two five six, two five seven, two eight, two nine, thirty-one ..." This familiar nursery rhyme that exists in childhood memories has a new interpretation in Daowu Elementary School. Hakka dialect, Xiang dialect, Gan dialect... Nursery rhymes in various dialects are intertwined. Different interpretations of the same lyrics give the nursery rhymes different charms, and in the powerful drum beats of language and music, students sing and dance while playing happily. In recent days, a video of thousands of children singing dialect nursery rhymes together has gone viral on the Internet, and many netizens have praised it, saying, "It is really a language feast."
"The first activity of dialect nursery rhymes in our school is actually not a dialect nursery rhyme recess exercise." Tang Yile, the teacher in charge of dialect nursery rhyme recess exercises, introduced that the school music teaching and research team has been doing a research project on nursery rhymes and folk songs, and in the process of research, it was found that the sense of rhythm and rhythm of dialect folk songs is very strong. Not only that, but the unique charm of the dialect also fascinated every teacher in the teaching and research group. The yin and yang in the tone, the different sounds of the words, and the difference in every small detail are enough for them to study for a long time.
"Dialect nursery rhymes are the memories of many post-80s and post-90s children, but for children after 10, there are very few who can speak dialects, don't let the traditional language dissipate in the times." After many discussions, the teachers of the music teaching and research group included dialect nursery rhymes into the teaching topics, and applied to the school to hold the activity of "Dialect Nursery Rhymes Little Masters", so that dialects can truly enter the students' learning and life.
Different dialects have different rhymes, and 2700 people sing nursery rhymes together
"During the event, the students showed great enthusiasm. When the children returned home, they went out of their way to learn the standard dialect with their grandparents. Tang Yile said that the teachers also collected a lot of niche dialect nursery rhymes through this activity, and with this foundation, they decided to interpret the most popular nursery rhymes among the students in the form of dialects. Walked into the students' creative classroom.
In October 2021, Michigo Elementary School began to experiment with dialect nursery rhyme recess exercises for students in grades one to four, and in the process of trying, it was constantly discovering problems, improving problems, and fixing patterns before it was implemented throughout the school.
"In the process of implementation, we have also encountered some problems." Tang Yile introduced that it is not easy for all 2700 students in the school to actively participate in dialect nursery rhymes recess exercises, and some fifth- and sixth-grade students will be less interested in repeated nursery rhymes after repeated practice, "For these students, we will first teach some newly discovered niche dialect nursery rhymes, so that they can maintain freshness and improve their enthusiasm for participation." After continuous efforts, a spectacular scene of 2,700 people singing dialect nursery rhymes in unison was staged at Dogo Elementary School at the end of November 2020.
Tang Yile said that dialect is not only a way of expression, but also the foundation of residents in different regions, the holding of dialect nursery rhyme activities, can enhance the communication between children and the elderly, but also allow many interesting nursery rhymes to survive. "In the next teaching plan, the music teaching and research group has an innovative dialect teaching project combined with the language teaching and research group, and then we will strive to integrate dialect into more disciplines."