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Dr. Fleurette Sweeney, SC, President of the Living Language Institute, worked closely with Mary Helen Richards of the Richards Institute for Music Education and Research from the 1960’s until the 1990’s. In the 1970’s and 1980’s she taught courses entitled Education Through Music (ETM) throughout the Lower Mainland, and in the years immediately preceding her retirement from teaching in 1995, she taught courses at UBC, entitled Whole Child/Whole Music. Social play within the context of folk song-games was an essential component in all of these courses. Concurrently with her teaching in North America, Fleurette worked closely with dozens of Japanese teachers teaching English in Japan since 1980. These teachers, all of whom were non-native speakers of English, found that playing folk song-games was a particularly effective context for establishing a strong oral basis for English among their students. In 2002, Dr. Sweeney completed her doctoral thesis at the University Of British Columbia based on Sound to Symbol.
Research Reports available:
Sweeney, F (2002) From Sound to Symbol: The Whole Song as Curriculum, the Whole Child as Pedagogue, Observation as Methodology, Unpublished Doctoral Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
Sweeney, F and Tubianosa, T- (2004) Final Report of the Singing English Pilot Project, submitted to the Vancouver Foundation, Vancouver, Living Language Institute Foundation
Tubianosa, T. et al – (2005) Final Report of the Singing English Pilot Study, (2005) unpublished Research Report, Vancouver, Living Language Institute Foundation
Contact: LivingLanguage@shaw.ca
In Progress
Forsythe, K, Sweeney, F. et al – ( 2007) Observations of Singing English with Children on the Autistic Spectrum and their Parents, work in progress, Vancouver, Living Language Institute Foundation
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