Monday, September 28, 2015

4 rituals for improving how students feel about their pronunciation

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ClipArt: Clker.com It is getting to the point now that whenever you need advice on all things related to feeling or doing better, your d...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Tapping into English rhythm--but not teaching it or remembering it!

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Credit: Anna Shaw One question I often pose to language teachers is something like: How do you teach rhythm? The most frequent answer...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Haptic pronunciation teaching basics for non-native English-speaking instructors

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Clipart: Clker.com Upcoming haptic workshop at the 2015 Tri-TESOL Conference in October 3rd, 2015 at Highline College, Des Moines, Was...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Gesture-assisted vocabulary instruction for (even) the kinaesthetically-challenged

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Clipart: Clker.com "Iran" into an interesting study recently by three Iranian reseachers looking into "The E...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Triggering pronunciation and accent change, safely: the drama, not the "trauma"

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Clip Art: Clker.com A recent article in the Economist has a great cartoon up top with a sign posted at the front door of a campus: CAUT...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

How YOU elocute is how I elocute: Collaborative haptic motor skill (and pronunciation) learning

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For a glimpse into the future of instruction, have a look at  Chellali, Dumas and Milleville-Pennel (2010) " A Haptic Communication...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Sub-par, gesture-enabled (pronunciation) teaching?

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Clipart: Clker.com FORE! Never quite gotten into the "swing" of using movement and gesture in pronunciation, vocabulary, spea...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Back to the future of pronunciation teaching (and the "Goldfish" standard for attention management)

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You apparently have a bit more than 8 seconds to read this post. So you may want to just scroll down to the conclusion and start there . . ....
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

/i/ or /ɪ/: Perception to Production

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Nice piece of research by Lee and Lyster (Lee and Lyster, 2015 - Full citation below) demonstrating the impact of feedback on "instruc...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Putting the festive and 'fʌn' back in (pronunciation) teaching and testing: The Taylor Swift effect!

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Clipart: Clker.com Following an earlier, tongue-in-cheek post on excessive "fear of micro-aggression" in pronunciation teachin...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Lying with verbal working memory: the truth about foreign language pronunciation training

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ClipArt: Clker.com “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar!” (according to  Abraham Lincoln), but according to a recen...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

P(fff)FT! Bubble Up Theory! Improve your accent by not thinking about (it)?

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ClipArt: Clker.com According to Passive Frame Theory, (or as I like to call it: Bubble Up Theory) the answer to the question "What...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Micro-aggression in (pronunciation) teaching

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Photo credit: Clker.com One of the common responses in research as to why contemporary instructors don't deal much with pronunciatio...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

High intensity training: Mind, body--and pronunciation!

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Clip art:  Clker.com It is no coincidence that many, if not most, "hapticians"(those who teach pronunciation with a focus ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Front and back-brained creativity--"monkeying around" with (haptic) pronunciation change!

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Clip art: Clker.com One argument against extensive kinaesthetic involvement in general instruction or pronunciation teaching (using ges...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Are you out of your brain? More evidence why warm ups work in (pronunciation) teaching

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Clipart by: Clker.com Always good to get a bit more empirical confirmation of our common sense and practice in teaching. As any expe...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Been there, done that: One-shot (pronunciation) teaching and learning!

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When  or how does pronunciation work STICK--quickly? Clipart: Clker.com  Here is a fascinating new, seemingly counter-intuitive study ...