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Digital Identity Research and Pronunciation Teaching

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Biopoetry and "Haptic Listening"

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In the following by avant guarde poet, Eduardo Kac, one type of haptic listening is defined: " . . . Haptic listening: Implant a self-p...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Ichabod's Fallacy: Don't move the body

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"Investigating a crime scene at Sleepy Hollow, Constable Ichabod Crane becomes agitated: "You have moved the body ?" he inqui...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Class Conducting

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Earlier in the development of HIPoeces we did make extensive use of batons. The "problem," of course, with a stick as used by a co...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Why learning pronunciation with "just" video generally doesn't work!

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This article, from PC Magazine, makes the case that something is missing in video-centered learning systems. In the first paragraph, as a ma...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Dance your way to rhythm and grammar?

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John Sutton explores in dance how patterns become integrated into practice: "These investigations offer a unique opportunity to track t...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

How to make practicing in front of a mirror less painful . . .

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According to this study, all you have to do is just stand a bit further away from the mirror if what you see there is "painful!" W...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Movement training and "homework"

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The article linked above is a review "Constraint-induced Movement Therapy," a process developed for working with loss of body move...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Haptic Rhythm and Melody

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In this study, it was discovered that rhythm, as opposed to melodic overlay, had more impact on haptic anchoring. The implications of that r...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Poetry as haptic; haptic defined

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Thorpe and Farrell in "ekleksographia" explore poetry as haptic experience. Haptic-based procedures in pronunciation work easily b...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Read aloud!

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In both second language and native language reading teaching, in early phases of instruction, the role or value of students being required t...

Virtual (reality) Talking Head(s)

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Although the ultimate goal of HIPoeces work is to do pronunciation work in virtual reality, the thought of coordinating your sound system wi...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Changing motor patterns

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And we sometimes wonder why changing a fossilized speech pattern can take time: (From Mark Bull) "In my experience some small improveme...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Group learning styles

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This from Simon (2000), linked above: "The behavior modeling method—developed in the 1970s for building an individual's skills—is a...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Handy study, eh.

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Another study confirming that systematic use of gesture has a place in formal education--at least physics. The fact that the research focuse...

Moving and touching about the mouth

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This piece by Adrian Underhill does a good job of illustrating the typical use of movement and touch close in,  in several  mouth-centered ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Affective Haptics

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Kinesthetic and haptic techniques in the pronunciation class should, in principle, work for several reasons. One is  that movement and touch...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

How Rhythm does what it does . . .

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It turns out (not surprisingly) that the brain "runs on rhythm." In relatively new research enabled by remarkable  technological a...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Learning in 3D

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The basic tool or interface of HIPoeces work is a 3-dimensional visualized matrix which fills the visual field of the learner. The vertical ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

In the Beginning was . . . Rhythm

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There is, as far as I am aware, no published research on recall based on learners having kinesthetically or haptically experienced a text or...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

"Haplessly" Integrated Pronunciation for Japanese . . . but cute!

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This video has several of the elements: music, dance (total body engagement), speech synchronized gesture, cute--but misses on several other...
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