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Thursday, February 28, 2013

AH-EPS Test Drive package

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This is also on the Haptic pronunciation teaching blog , but thought it essential to get out the word here as well. Here is the current pla...

Improving pronunciation in your sleep?

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Clip art: Clker For any number of reasons, I have always advised students to do their regular pronunciation practice in the morning. I ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

More on AH-EPS Introductory Video demo on Vimeo

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Let me answer a couple of questions that came as email relating to the introductory Vimeo demo of AH-EPS .  (1) AH-EPS does not in any...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Acton Haptic - English Pronunciation System

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TM If you would like to see a preview of what the system will look like, here is a short Vimeo collection of 6 video clips from one modu...

Positive pronunciation anchors and pronunciation practice word lists

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Clip art: Clker Generally, when I refer to "anchoring" in HICP work, the focus is the multiple modality "hexus" of ...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Grafting melodious bird song on to animal, utilitarian pronunciation

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This is just too much to resist.  Miyagawa, Berwick and Okanoya of MIT make an interesting observation , following on from comments by Darw...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Thinking (and learning pronunciation) outside the brain

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Clip art: Clker Dynamic or "external" imagery (imagery accompanied by synchronized, related body movement rehearsal) boosted ...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

The future of pronunciation teaching: It's simple, Haptics!

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Clip art: Clker Well . . . actually what Moussette proposed in a 2012 doctoral thesis at Umeå University, Sweden, reported by Science D...

Perceived distance between or difference in accents

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Clker Clip art:  Stick that in Google and you get over 9,700,000 hits. There is apparently some interest in that question. My diss...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Sing first: listen later: Noticing new or different sounds in L2 pronunciation learning

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Here's one for all of us who make extensive use of singing in class. (Here is yet another case where experienced practitioners know it ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

"Haptic" pronunciation TESOL 2013 pre-convention institute is ON!

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Clip art:  Clker Great news! TESOL is going to allow us to offer the full-day workshop on March 19th before the convention. Early ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Blame it on your Alpha: why some people don't learn pronunciation well

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Clip art: Clker According to 2013 research by Dinse from the Neural Plasticity Lab of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and colleagues, repo...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Connecting "internal" pronunciation memory with "external" movement and vocal resonance

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Clip art: Clker Now, granted, this one is a bit of a stretch but it is certainly headed in the right direction . . . from a new study...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Acton Haptic - English Pronunciation System™

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AH-EPS (pronounced "apes") will be the official name of what we earlier referred to as "EHIEP" (pronounced: "ape...
Monday, February 4, 2013

TESOL 2013 Haptic Pronunciation PCI

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Just heard from TESOL that as of today there aren't enough registered for the Haptic Pronunciation PCI in Dallas to offer it. Registrat...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Collaborative pronunciation group work--by design!

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Clip art: Clker There is , as far as I can tell, virtually no accessible, published research on the efficacy of group work in pronuncia...

Introducing "Acton Haptic, Inc." and "Acton Haptic - English Pronunciation System"

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Clip art: Clker As noted in the right sidebar, we are about to do a little re-branding. Our company name will officially change to ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Synesthesia alert: No magnetic letters on your refrigerator!

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Image credit: Synesthete.org Especially if you have toddlers in the house! Well, not really. This study , by Witthoft and Winnawer of S...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Washing your hands (of/during) pronunciation teaching

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Clip art: Clker This one is too much fun to pass up. Three (female) researchers, Lapinski of Michigan State University, Maloney of Univ...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

EHIEP Haptic Pronunciation Workshops

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Here is the basic announcement format of the courses we are beginning to offer this year in various venues. (If you'd...
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