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Thursday, October 23, 2014

The best, fastest, most moving and touching way to improve English pronunciation! (AHEPS v3.0 Previews)

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These videos are still a work in progress but will give you a pretty good idea of what each module of Acton Haptic English Pronunciation Sys...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Meta-pronunciation: Just do it!

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Nice post by Wilson and Conyers on Edutopia blog  looking at teaching metacognitive skills to kids. (Some of the links off the post are good...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Haptic pronunciation teaching workshop at TESOL 2015 in Toronto!

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For the 8th year in row, a haptic pronunciation teaching workshop has been accepted for presentation at the TESOL conference in Toronto, ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Hot Haptic pronunciation teaching topics for upcoming conference proposals!

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Here in Vancouver we are getting ready to collaborate as usual in writing haptic proposals for a couple of upcoming conferences. Here is our...
Monday, September 8, 2014

More than a gesture: When to use gesture in L2 teaching

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Should you still need more convincing as to the value and contribution of gesture in L2 learning and instruction, the September 2014 issue o...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Improve L2 pronunciation-- with or without lifting a finger!

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Clip art: Clker Listen to this! (You may even want to sit down before you do!) New study showing how movement can affect listening by Mo...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Providing pronunciation teaching with signs (and wonders!) and a hand!

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More fascinating research on the role of gesture in learning from Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago, summarized by Science Daily. ...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

The right way to teach the "wrong" pronunciation!

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 Credit: Clker/ Library of Congress One of the delights of having been in the field for a few decades is seeing "new" researc...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Blocking poor (and improved) pronunciation with Mindfulness

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Mindfulness  is big. It is described a number of ways, according to Wikipedia: "Mindfulness is a way of paying attention that origina...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

The end of (pronunciation) homework!

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Clip art: Clker How essential is homework/practice to the success of your students? Interesting set of four pieces on homework linked o...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Turned off by pronunciation teaching and learning? Good plan!

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Clip art: Clker Have for years, often in jest, pointed an accusing finger at the pre-frontal cortex as at least contributing to the dif...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Haptically Speaking!

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Credit: Hapticallyspeaking.com Have been meaning to do a blogpost on a project of Dr David Hurd Professor of Geosciences and Planetarium...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Stop using excessive repetition in pronunciation teaching! (Especially if your student almost gets it right the first time!)

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 "Words, words, words." (Hamlet) There is probably no topic more controversial in pronunciation teaching than the role of repeti...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Stop assigning pronunciation homework! (Unless it is systematic and you follow up on it!)

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Clip art: Clker Time to check your homework . . . How's this for a formula for success: Instruction (in class, f2f or online) + out...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Stop practicing pronunciation! (If your students can explore it!)

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This is a follow up on, " Stop correcting pronunciation! (If your students can afford it! )," based on a post by Tabaczynski. Que...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Stop correcting pronunciation! (If your students can afford it!)

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Clip art: Library  of Congress Good post by Tabaczynski, Counselling Paradigm in Language Teaching   that seems very in line with where ...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Conducing feelings and emotions with vowels!

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How's this for an opening line of a new Science Daily summary of 2014 research by Rummer and Grice entitled, Mood is linked to vowel typ...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Prompt (haptic) pronunciation prompting: Why does that work?

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This post is an edited repost of a piece I posted on a list-serve recently, " The dark side of real-time, spontaneous pronunciation cor...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Up standing (haptic) pronunciation teaching!

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Early on we realized that at least for orientation and training where the primary goal of instruction is improved oral production of English...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

9 ways to add more confidence to your pronunciation teaching!

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There have been several earlier posts focusing from different perspectives on the role of confidence in pronunciation learning and teaching....
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