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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

(New) v5.0 Haptic Pronunciation Teaching as "Metanique": any text, story, class or time

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If you are new to haptic pronunciation, here is a quick history. (If not, drop down to after the bullets!) To understand the importance of t...
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Monday, September 28, 2020

Believing in pronunciation teaching -- at least at the beginning!

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Have believed for . . . a long time . . . that early pronunciation instruction and learning is not only a higher calling, but  in some sense...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Next Haptic Pronunciation Teaching (Free!) Webinars!

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We (the MATESOL at Trinity Western University) are doing two FREE introductory webinars on haptic pronunciation teaching: Friday, October 2n...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

(New) Acton Haptic Accent Enhancement for International Professionals

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For the last 5 or 6 years I have been working with a "new" accent enhancement system, based on haptic pronunciation teaching face-...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Fixing your eyes on better pronunciation--or before it!

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ClipArt by Early on in the development of haptic pronunciation teaching, we began by borrowing a number of techniques from Observed Expe...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Haptic pronunciation teaching (un)masked!

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A student just asked the question: How can I teach pronunciation in a mask? Where he is, already back in the classroom, he and most of his ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Getting a feel for pronunciation: What our pupils can tell us!

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Clker.com What do you do with your eyes when you are struggling to understand something that you are listening to? (Quick: Write that do...
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

CPR for Pronunciation homework and teaching . . . that works!

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Clker.com Excellent study by Martin, " Pronunciation Can Be Acquired Outside the Classroom: Design and Assessment of Homework-Based Tra...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

The sound of gesture: Ending of gesture use in language (and pronunciation) teaching

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Quick reminder:  Only one week to sign up for the next haptic pronunciation teaching webinars!  Sometimes getting a rise (ing pitch) out o...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Cognitive Restructuring of Pronunci-o-phobia - (and Alexa-phobia): Hear, hear! (Just don't peek!)

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Clker.com Caveat emptor: If you are emotionally co-dependent on Alexa, you might want to "ALEXA, STOP ME!" at this point. We l...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Killing pronunciation 12: Memory for new pronunciation: Better heard (or felt) but not seen!

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Another in our series of practices that undermine effective pronunciation instruction! Clker.com (Maybe) bad news from visual neurosci...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

What do you expect? (A "Tsough" question for pronunciation teaching!)

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Intriguing title of  recent piece/summary on ScienceDaily.com: "Flaw in Rubber Hand Illusion raise tsough questions for psychology...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching Webinars!

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The first new, v5.0 "double webinar" is set to go, October 2nd and November 21st, 1930~2100 hours, Pacific Standard Time. Reserve ...
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Monday, April 6, 2020

The "story" of pronunciation teaching: Engaging Preambles

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One of the potential advantages of having taught pronunciation for a few years (in my case, almost 50) is that you have on hand a near endle...
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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...
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