Wednesday, October 31, 2012

"Couch potato" pronunciation learning

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker So what if some students, for whatever reason, cannot or decide not to participate in your choral ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

The music of haptic pronunciation teaching

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Clip art: Clker The research on the impact of music on exercise is extensive. (The empirical evidence as to  how music may influence g...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Confident, "power" pronunciation: in 2 minutes?

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Photo credit: Ted.blog.com Clip art: Clker Here is a 21-minute TED talk by Amy Cuddy well worth watching, "Your body language ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Sound mirroring of pronunciation: Trick or treat?

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker In keeping with the spirit of the season, how about this title of a summary from Science Magazin...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Connecting reading to pronunciation

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Clip art: Clker Fascinating study of the neurological correlates of literacy in children by Yeatman and colleagues at Stanford , summar...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Haptic entrainment: Why haptic works 2

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker May do a series of research updates on "Why haptic works!" Following up on the previous ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

ERN more with self-esteem; correct more (pronunciation) errors!

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Interesting study by  Legault and colleagues of Clarkson University , summarized by Science Da...

Sound-grapheme nexus: why 'haptic' works!

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Credit: jp41.com The research on why haptic integration in pronunciation work should facilitate encoding and recall is substantial. A g...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Explaining the EHIEP 'haptic' system to students and colleagues

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As promised, here is an updated, basic set of "elevator talking points" for introducing Essential Haptic-integrated English Pronu...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Mimic movement and pronunciation? Not always your cup of coffee!

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker That's right. Observed a great example of that recently at a conference. According to research...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Navigating, resetting and remapping pronunciation change

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker When is a pronunciation "error" or mis-speak so serious that it interferes the developin...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Confident, successful pronunciation?

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Yet another potential piece for your "Well . . . duh!" file. The term "self confiden...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

"Effortless," fluent English speaking--even without conversation?

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Wow. Once in a while you stumble on a commercial English teaching website where the claims are alm...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

In your ears!!! (Not for accurate sound discrimination!)

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Have long recommended that learners NOT use headsets when working on pedagogical movement patterns...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Making scents of haptic-integrated pronunciation teaching

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Image: Mary Kay Cosmetics Clip art: Clker As noted in an earlier blogpost, I have discovered that having students rub in a little...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Advice on pronunciation teaching: What do you expect?

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker According to Warrington of Asia University , asking questions in a class discussion such as ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Putting a little more muscle in your (pronunciation) teaching

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Every body builder knows that increasing muscle mass requires moving more iron or the equivalent. ...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Better online? Video modelling for line dancing and pronunciation

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Video modelling is used extensively in many education and training contexts. The previous post ske...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Hearts and hand grenades: Why students must like you using movement in pronunciation teaching!

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Now here is a very interesting, relevant study. According to Aziz-Zadeh and colleagues at USC , (S...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Total recall: haptic anchoring and integration vs cross-modal reinforcement of pronunciation

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Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker There are an almost infinite number of ways to create heuristics to assist learners in attending t...