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Clip art: Clker As announced some time ago, one of my goals at the TESOL Convention is to begin a new international organization for th...

clip art: Clker I knew there had to be a scientific term for why students lose interest in pronunciation work occasionally . . . and a ...

The first question I often get after a presentation is something like, "So what is the evidence that systematic use of gesture (or ped...

Clip art: Clker I love Science Daily. They throw up some of the wackiest or most politically loaded stuff consistently in the form of s...

Clip art: Clker Love that acronym! Over the life of the blog there have been several posts that relate to exercise persistence. What co...

Inserted below is an excerpt from the beginning of the AH-EPS Student Workbook. If you do consider doing the free "TEST DRIVE" o...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...