Sunday, May 26, 2013

Motion "IQ" and haptic pronunciation teaching

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Clip art:  Clker A few decades back, the distinction between field independence and field dependence was investigated extensively i...
Friday, May 17, 2013

In search of a "touch" for pronunciation teaching

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Scott Thornbury , of the New School, recently gave a plenary at TESOL-Spain that at least had a great title: The Human Touch: How we learn...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

In"gender"ing pitch and frequency change in (haptic) pronunciation work

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Clip art:  Ever wondered exactly when change in voice quality created by testosterone therapy during the sex change process signals th...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Paying attention to touch in pronunciation teaching. (No applause, please!)

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Clip art: Clker The most frequent question we get at workshops is: "How does haptic work, anyway?" This 2011 study by Blanken...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Motivating pronunciation practice: Where seldom is heard a discouraging (or encouraging) word* . . .

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Clip art: Clker Following up on a recent post on the value of self-affirmation, or affirmation in general in learning, a 2013 study, ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching @ TESOL 2014 in Portland!

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Time to start preparing our proposals for TESOL 2014 in Portland! TESOL 2013 in Dallas will be hard to beat but Portland is also a great...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Haptic cinema and EHIEP-tic pronunciation training

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My discovery of "haptic cinema" and that approach to experiential entertainment and teaching about 6 years ago was a game changer...
Monday, May 6, 2013

The sound of gesture: kinaesthetic listening during "haptic video" pronunciation instruction

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In the early 90s a paint ball game designer in Japan told me that my kinaesthetic work was a natural for virtual reality. Several times sin...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Symbiosis: Waiting for Godot (and research on pronunciation) to tell us how to teach!

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Rereading a nice 2007 article from Educational Leadership by Marzano & Pickering, "Special topic: The case for and against homewo...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

I love it (and me) when I say it that way: Affirming pronunciation errors

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The role and impact of mispronunciation are multi-faceted, from how society perceives the lack of fit to the L1, to the learner's attit...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Better pronunciation with grit, tenacity and perseverance!

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Clip art: Clker If getting the pronunciation of your L2 does not come easy (or accomplishing anything that requires mobilization of all...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

In a word: Global intelligibility vs local comprehensibility in pronunciation teaching

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This is interesting. In an excerpt from a chapter in a new book,  Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speaker...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

R U P? (Txtmsging 4 pronunciation practice persistence)

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Clip art: There are more and more studies on the use of social media in tempting people to engage in healthy,  constructive, persistent...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Aerobic Haptic Breakout #3

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Here is the 3rd of 3 "Aerobic Haptic" break out sessions done last weekend at the BCTEAL conference.  Here is  the Rhythm Fight C...

Aerobic Haptic Break Out #2

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Here is the 2nd of 3 "Aerobic Haptic" break out sessions done last weekend at the BCTEAL conference.  Here is the Butterfly pres...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

More hard hitting evidence as to why haptic pronunciation teaching has so much punch!

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Clip art by Clker This is really cool. At the BC TEAL conference on Saturday we'll be doing a presentation on the neurological...