Sunday, May 29, 2016

Why does haptic pronunciation teaching work?

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Good question! Here is an excerpt from the new Haptic Pronunciation Teaching - English (HaPT-E) Instructor notes . (If you'd like to pre...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Invisible pronunciation: What you see is not necessarily what you get.

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Nice new study by Smotrova " Making Pronunciation Visible: Gesture In Teaching Pronunciation ", in press, in TESOL Quarterly, exa...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching and Applied Phonology Course, August 1st~26th in Vancouver, BC!

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If you are in the Vancouver area in August, join us at Trinity Western University for the Ling 611 Applied Phonology course (3 graduate cred...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

New (haptic) Rhythm Fight Club at BCTEAL 2016: Why haptic works better . . .

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Photo credit: BYU.edu Next Saturday, at Simon Fraser University, at 11:45 at the BCTEAL conference , Shine Hong and I will be doing a 45...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

20 Ideas for TESOL 2017 haptic pronunciation teaching proposals!

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Time for doing proposals for TESOL 2017! The deadline is June 1st. If you are interested in being on a team that does a workshop, poster ses...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Gesture the cause of pronunciation problems?

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That's right! You should try it! Here's why . . .  Referring to ways in which learners' L1s differs from their L2s is generall...
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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching - v3.5 TESOL 2016 Special!

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Even if you can't make it to Baltimore next week for the TESOL Convention for one of the demos, you can still get the AHEPS "TESOL ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Haptic Fight Club Demonstrations at TESOL 2016 in Baltimore!

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Cilker.com If you'll be at the TESOL Convention in Baltimore week after next, join us for two VERY brief but "hard hitting...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Rethinking gesture use in technology and (pronunciation) teaching

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Personal digital communication technology is revolutionizing our understanding of the critical role played by touch in accessing "data...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Move me, I'm in; show me, I learn.

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Always nice to stumble onto yet another piece of empirical research that helps explain why something you do in teaching probably works. Ha...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Incidental Correction of Pronunciation

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MA Thesis defense here (Trinity Western University) today by Rebeka delaMorandiere: Incidental Correction of Pronunciation: Beliefs and Cla...