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In this study by Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al of Cornell University, summarized by ScienceDaily, the secret of coming up with great mo...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Forgive the lame double entendre in the title of the blogpost --there is, nonetheless, a potential...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Mnemonics have great potential in enabling memory and learning--and even pronunciation. Such strat...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Scientists at Cal Tech have recently uncovered " . . . a type of synesthesia in which individ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker A good question! Any number of studies suggest that learners can guess at some patterns with more ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Can pronunciation instruction be too much fun? Can the expectations we set up early on work against...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker As developed in many previous posts, haptic-integrated pronunciation should alway be understood in...

That's right! Embodied AND disembodied. Here is  the evidence !

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Here is a Science Digest summary of a fascinating study on the advantages of being bilingua l just ...

Clip art: Clker Now there (with a little cross-lingual liberty) is a term perhaps we could use: "Pronance" (French for second...

Photo credit: REX / The Telegraph Sometimes it is simply fascinating when a research study on speech development "goes viral"...

Clip art: Clker One of my favorite meta-communicative terms, "metalogue," defined as " . . . a conversation about some ...

Photo credit: mma-training.com Even if you are not a big fan of Mixed Martial Arts, you almost have to admire the focus on bringing to ...

Library of Congress According to this new study by Gervais at University of British Columbia, summarized by Science Direct,  use of ana...

Photo credit:   Bobpardue.com In working with directed body movement, especially upper body gestures and haptic anchoring in pronuncia...

Clip art: Clker In more than a few respects, the non-native speaking instructor may have a distinct advantage over the native speaker. ...

This is the next of several posts unpacking t he PEPI model introduced in a recent post. We'll generally focus on the 8 outside boxes a...

Clip art: Clker Interesting new study summarized by Science Daily on the  downside of positive stereotype s. Quick. Make a list of all ...

Logo: Process-Experiential Therapy Once every couple of months I check in with my local counseling psychologist/researcher in the build...

clipart: Clker With apologies to Shakespeare , will quickly consider the topic of a recent discussion as to the efficacy (or necessity) o...