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Sunday, December 27, 2020

New "NewBees'" Haptic Pronunciation course!

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Want to teach pronunciation but have no training and no time in class to do it even if you knew how?  We have a great new course for you: Ac...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Killing Pronunciation 14: One tip at a time (or better still . . . "pho-nunciation")

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Nice new book just out by Mark Hancock, 50 tips for teaching pronunciation.  Currently it is only available in hardcopy, but you can preview...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Out of sight!. . . Speechless! . . .Hands on teaching of the "grammar" of phonology and pronunciation

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The study, “ Feeling Phonology: The Conventionalization of Phonology in Protactile Communities in the United States"  by Edwards of Sai...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Killing pronunciation 13: Mastering mastery learning, teddy bears and other nonsense!

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Good news for those who still believe that their students just need lots and lots of exposure to the language in meaningful contexts--and th...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Motivation to do Pronunciation work: Smell-binding study!

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Rats! Well . . . actually . . . mice who are motivated to (voluntarily) exercise more are genetically set up or developed to have better, mo...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Zoom(h)aptic: Haptic Pronunciation Teaching online

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Keeping in touch doing pronunciation online with your students a problem? We've been working with what we call "haptic videos"...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Managing distraction in (haptic pronunciation) teaching: to block or to hype . . . or both!

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New study by Udakis et al:  Interneuron-specific plasticity at parvalbumin and somatostatin inhibitory synapses onto CA1 pyramidal neurons s...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The "Marshmallow effect" in (haptic pronunciation) teaching

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Following up on the previous blogpost on "distracting from distractions," here is a "delicious" study by Heyman, of Univ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Good, or at least less "distracting" distraction in (pronunciation) teaching

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Now here is some "different" research from the Journal of Food Science Education and the journal, Perception, that you may have mi...
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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...
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