HICPR

Haptic-integrated Clinical Pronunciation Research and Teaching

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Links to EAPIC Lesson 1

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  Here we go! The training video The blogpost with the materials  Link to the Introduction video Keep in touch! Bill
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Links to the EAPIC Introductory lesson!

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Here we go! The training video:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/19hEbA_pt0ofZFDupV3kM90JRiScJDLwf/view?usp=sharing The blogpost with the m...
Friday, September 19, 2025

14 reasons, according to Perplexity.ai, to do an English Accent and Pronunication Improvement Course - other than pronunciation!

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Our terrific haptic English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course begins next week. (Go here for details on the course!)  In preparing...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Beginning next week! (Haptic) English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course

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 If you have students, or colleagues  (or yourself!) who  have an IELTS speaking score of 5 or above, and  still have some accent or pronunc...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Fall 2025 (KINETIK) English Accent and Pronunciation Course!

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KINETIK – using the whole body to learn (especially gesture and touch) Beginning September 25, 2025 Much better accent or pronunciation Much...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

EAPIC AI, AI, AI, AI! (Summer 2025, English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course)

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The summer course begins with a short recorded introduction available on Youtube, June 26th! (See fuller course description here.)   It incl...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI, AI, AI, AI! (AI takes over creating personalized, haptic pronunciation teaching homework!)

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 A core component of the English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course is the weekly embodied oral reading. Each week students are tra...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

Back to the future of (haptic) pronunciation teaching: beginning June 23rd!

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The 2025 summer English Accent and Pronuncition Improvement Course (EAPIC) begins next month on the 26th. (The Spring course materials and v...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The future of pronunciation teaching: Extinction

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Have just begun working with the new AI bot "perplexity." Asked it about embodiment in language learning. Although its primary so...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

60 days to better pronunciation (and making a habit of it!)

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 I'm reminded of the old saw: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes . . . In the midst of this meta analysis-lite of what it takes...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Guilt by reason of "accentedness" (and what should be done about it!)

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Interesting study out of the UK:  “ Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of b...
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Thursday, January 9, 2025

English accent and pronunciation improvement course LITE (EAPIC!)

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Course begins with recorded introduction on February 6th! In about two months make good progress in improving your English accent or pronunc...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024

EPIC preview of the English Accent and Pronunciation Course (pronounced: EPIC!)

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EPIC PREVIEW POSTPONED - DUE TO MINOR HAPTIC MALFUNCTION HERE! CHECK BACK February 5th!!!  Spring 8-week course--Wednesday evenings 8~9 p.m....
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Haptic English Accent and Pronunciation LITE!

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This is an 8-week, weekend version of the regular English Accent and Pronunication Course. ( See the description of the full 12-week course ...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

A four-part (haptic) "metanique" for improving English pronunciation . . . and teaching!

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Since Haptic Pronunciation Teaching started back in 2005, a basic technique was the "Movement, tone and touch technique," the MT3....
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A new, short--but terrific-- course in Haptic Pronunciation Teaching

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For all of you whose bodies are just dying to teach pronunciation "whole-bodily" and haptically . . .good news! I'll be offeri...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

(Embodied) Post-grad IELTS Speaking (6.0 or 5.0) to get work in Canada? Bon chance!

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Have you seen this?  Among other actions taken to cut back on the number of international students coming to Canada, there are new langauge ...
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Sunday, September 8, 2024

(Haptic) English Accent and Pronunciation Course - Begins October 3rd!

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In case you missed the course announcement, HERE a quick video guide to it , and  THE LINK to the course description!  It is a new design, c...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

New! (Haptic) English Accent and Pronunciation Course!

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Better, confident pronunciation in three months  Course dates: October 3rd ~ December 18th (10 Lessons) Created for students who really want...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Haptic (pronunciation) hacks and widgets!

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Doing a fun, one hour, webinar with CATESOL on Friday at noon PST!  :  Embodied Pronunciation Part 2: Haptic Hacks and Widgets Here is the p...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

How do you "get" the rhythm of a new language? Can you?

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Clker.com This is something of a follow up to a 3/10/24 blog post (All you need is rhythm . . . ).Turns out, not surprisingly, that natural...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

What to do for falling student confidence!

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One of the joys of teaching is all those times when you stumble on a wonderful technique . . . almost by accident, when the lesson that you ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The "Fly-Chi": All you need is a little embodied, fluent rhythm--for "supra" vowels and consonants!

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About a month ago, I stumbled on to a pair of "haptic" techniques, using "supra-segmentals," that is rhythm, stress and ...
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