Learning and Teaching Vietnamese Children’s Songs (30 Minutes)

Lifetime

All levels

1 lesson

1 quiz

68 students

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Course Description

In this workshop, you’ll learn a Vietnamese children’s song called Chiều Nay Em Đi Câu Cá (Goin’ Fishing) and accompanying information that will help you teach it, including language pronunciation. You’ll also learn about the sociocultural and historical context of Vietnamese Americans to supplement your cultural knowledge.

Course Objectives

1. Learn to sing Chiều Nay Em Đi Câu Cá (Goin’ Fishing) in Vietnamese and English.

2. Experience one way to teach a song that is not in English that centers language.

3. Learn about the varied backgrounds of Vietnamese Americans.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:

1. Be able to sing the song in Vietnamese

2. Have one Vietnamese song in your repertoire that you can teach in various ways

3. Be one step closer to cultural competence with Vietnamese culture by learning the nuanced differences among varied Vietnamese backgrounds regarding refugees and immigrants, and use this to make culturally responsive decisions relating to students.

Requirements for Completion

1. Watch PD video.
2. Complete required quiz.

Tina Huynh

Tina teaches music education methods courses, graduate education courses, and "Music of the Vietnamese Diaspora" at the University of Puget Sound. She works with undergraduates in the School of Music and with graduates in the School of Education's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. Dr. Huynh is author of The Vietnamese Children’s Songbook (F-Flat Books, 2023), a compilation of nine popular Vietnamese children’s songs and cultural practices. Her film, Songs of Little Saigon (2021) (First Light Productions), about the resilience of eight Vietnamese American refugee musicians throughout Orange County, California, has won 14 awards and recognitions from national and international film festivals. Her latest film, The Resting Place (CRPF, 2022), is about the Vietnamese refugee community in Tacoma, WA and can be screened freely at crpftacoma.org/community