Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Haptic Integration of AWL Vocabulary Instruction

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Credit for image:  Thehungergames.wikia.com Amanda Baker, Mike Burri and myself are proposing a chapter for a proposed book on integra...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Brain-fit Pronunciation Instruction!

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Wow! Science Daily just published an article on a program developed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center called the "Brain Fit Club...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Famous "Alcohol/L2 pronunciation study" mystery solved: Here's (NOT) looking at you, kid!

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Clip art: Clker If you have done some formal study of second language pronunciation teaching and learning, you have almost certainly ran...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

New introduction to Haptic Pronunciation Teaching!

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Keep in touch! This article, " Haptic (Movement and Touch for Better) Pronunciation ," by Brian Teaman and yours truly, wa...
Monday, August 26, 2013

What comes first? Speaking confidently or confident speaking?

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I know . . . trick question. A recent Facebook post by the seriously "positive"  Tim Murphey  got me thinking. He was commenting ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

No native-speaker models for pronunciation teaching allowed? Rats!

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Clip art: Clker For a number of reasons, the native speaker as model (or target) for L2 pronunciation or accent has been displaced by m...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Dealing with problem pronunciation? Gesticulate!

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Clip art; Clker This from a Science Daily summary of new research by Miller and O'Neil of San Francisco State University  on the ro...
Friday, July 26, 2013

(Haptic) Marking for better pronunciation: Going through the motions

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If you are a dancer, you'll get this one! Dance instruction and the dance "mind set" have long been two of my favourite analo...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Inattention to pronunciation (teaching)

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Clip Why does pronunciation instruction often not "take," that is why are learners often unable to integrate new and changed ...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching (AH-EPS) Materials and Courses!

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We now have 14 AH-EPS haptic pronunciation teaching packages. They are listed below and also available at the Haptic Pronunciation Teaching...
Monday, July 1, 2013

(AH-EPS) Instructor Accent Enhancement Course!

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Have just finished work on a new course for nonnative English-speaking instructors-- or native English speaking instructors who would like ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Looking for a way to better integrate pronunciation into your speaking and listening instruction? For $200?

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Below is a description of the AH-EPS system and the Introductory Instructor's Package that has just been released with GETONIC (See th...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Haptic error correction: Don't just tell me I'm wrong . . .

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Clip art: Clker Interesting new study on motor memory by Shadmehr and Vaswani of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, summarize...
Monday, June 3, 2013

13 Haptic pronunciation teaching proposals for TESOL 2014!

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The Team (of about 30 Hapticians and Hapticians-in-training) has submitted 13 proposals for the 2014 TESOL conference in Portland, in March...
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...