Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Recipe for curing (Chinese) distaste for pronunciation teaching

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Have trouble selling your students on pronunciation, developing an 'appetite" for it? Research by Madzharov,  Self-Control and Touc...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Love it or leave it: 2nd language body, voice, pronunciation and identity

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Clker.com Recall (if you can) the first time you were required to listen to or maybe analyze a recording of your voice. Surprising? Plea...
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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Pronunciation in the eyes of the beholder: What you see is what you get!

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This post deserves a "close" read. Although it applies new research to exploring basics of haptic pronunciation teaching specifica...
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

Becoming a great (haptic), "good looking" pronunciation teacher: Modeling

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If your are in the Vancouver, British Columbia next month, join us at the joint  2020 BCTEAL and Image Conference . Always a great get tog...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

RHYTHM FIRST (new) pronunciation teaching technique: Haptic Side Step!

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Full disclosure: the following post includes explicit, dance and intrapersonal touching, something of a follow up to two recent posts: Wh...
Monday, January 6, 2020

What mouse circadian memory should remind us of (in recalling pronunciation or anything learned earlier)

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Mystery partially solved. In doing research on homework efficiency and compliance in pronunciation teaching, something I had never taken all...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Drawing on drawing to enhance learning of sounds and pronunciation

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About 40 years ago, in working with dyslexia in the family, specifically elementary school reading and spelling tests, we stumbled onto the ...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Full-body and voice burn out prevention workshop for language teachers!

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Clker.com If you will be at BCTEAL regional conference on 11/16 , please join Angelina Van Dyke and me for the "Full-body and voic...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Glutin' your way to better pronunciation!

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This is the second of a series of posts introducing and exploring aspects of the new (RHYTHM-FIRST) v 5.0 haptic approach to pronunciation t...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

The Schrödinger's Cat(ch) of Pronunciation Teaching

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Clker.com Bottom line: It’s almost impossible to LOVE pronunciation teaching unless you have seen or heard or had it done to you. And i...
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Sunday, September 1, 2019

To gesture or not to gesture (to provide spontaneous correction in language teaching) Part 1

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A new study by Nakatsukasa (2019) demonstrates that using simple gesture to correct grammar (use of the 'ed' past tense) may not wor...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Why rhythm comes first in pronunciation teaching (Haptic Pronunciation Teaching Tip 63 or so!)

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Rhythm, stress and intonation. There are, of course, phonaesthetic explanations  as to why we list those concepts in that order, including h...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Next Advanced Hapticinar (haptic pronunciation teaching webinar)!

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The next advanced webinar will be on August 8th, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. (PST).  Familiarity with haptic pronunciation teaching (HaPT) is  requi...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Grasping (and reaching for) pronunciation together improves memory!

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There are countless studies demonstrating how under certain conditions repeating a word out loud enhances memory for it ( e.g., Sciencedaily...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Pronunciation work driving you crazy? Could be "pronunciosis"!

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Clker.com Tigger warning*: This post is more "pro-fun" than profound . . . (What I like to refer to as a 3-beet piece!) The ...