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Thursday, January 27, 2022

BIG news about Haptic Pronunciation Teaching!

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Size DOES matter it turns out, according to research by Masarwa, Kreichman, and Gilaie-Dotan of Bar Ilan University and University College L...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Confident English Speaking, Fluency and Pronunciation--in 10 weeks!

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As announced here on the blog , the new KINETIK English Fluency and Pronunciation Course is on.  Especially designed for students who do not...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Improved pronunciation "in the blink of any eye!"

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How important is general/not directly task-based body movement, especially the lack of it, to learning pronunciation, creativity or just lea...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Body-full-ness and (haptic) pronunciation teaching--make no mistake or at least fewer!

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Avoiding, correcting, accepting, embracing errors . . . take your pick in pronunciation (and all) instruction as to how you respond when lea...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Unemotional, improvement in conscientiousness in school (and homework and pronunciation) !!!

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Here is a pair of studies just too good to believe which suggest that you can train subjects (students?) to become more conscientious withou...
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Friday, January 7, 2022

New! 2022 Acton Haptic English Fluency and Pronunciation Courses!

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As promised, the new (Amazing!) KINETIK Method student and instructor courses are ready to go!  KINETIK Method:  Embodied fluency, content a...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Hapticanar #11 - 20 Haptic Techniques (in 30 minutes!)

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 If you'd like a preview of the new KINETIK Method Pronunciation Teaching Certificate Course, join us later today at the next Hapticanar...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

KINETIK Hapticanar #5: Double Vowels and (haptic) friends

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The next Hapticanar (Haptic webinar) is part two of the haptic system for teaching the vowels of English, at the regular wenbar time, July 1...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

KINETIK Hapticanar #4: Single Vowel-arama! (Or: How I learned to love stress and vowel it!)

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Haptic pronunciation teaching does an especially good job of teaching vowels and basic word stress. In this webinar we begin with what we ca...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

KINETIK Webinar #3: Consonants Supreme 1 (The Best, most moving way to teach the pronunciation of 'th' and beyond!)

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Duh best, most moving and efficient technique for duh 'th' sound and den some! One reason dat many metodologists advise not making ...
Monday, June 21, 2021

KINETIK (Haptic Pronunciation Teaching) Method Certification Course

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 Three ways to take the course! 1. (FREE) Attend the weekly Haptic(web)inars, Tuesdays at 6 p.m. PST. Learn one technique per week. Tomorrow...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Haptic Webinar #2: How can a little "TaiChi" enhance uptake and speaking fluency?

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Come to the next Haptic(web)inar and find out! To get there, go to the website and register . While you are there, check out videos of the I...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Where does really great pronunciation teaching begin? "GrammaRhythm-ing!"

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Note: This is definitely NOT your "grandma's way" of teaching pronunciation or grammar! Classroom work using the KINETIK Meth...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Introductory (Free) Haptic Webinar Tonight!

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 6 p.m. PST (1800)! The first of the (free) weekly, one-hour "Hapticanars." Here is the link to tonight's! Just click and yo...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Greatest Hapticanar Ever! Tomorrow!

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 Well . . . first one, actually! Just a little over 24 hours before the  Introductory free Hapticanar. No need to register in advance for th...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

The Thrill of the Drill in Pronunciation Teaching! (The First Hapticanar is coming!)

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 Here is the full "Hai(ptic)ku" (And here is the link to the June 8th Hapticanar: www.actonhaptic.com) The thrill of the drill Spr...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

KINETIK (Pronunciation Teaching) Method: Embodied cognition-centered, the way kid's learn . . . math!

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One of the most intriguing parallels to haptic pronunciation teaching is with embodied math instruction with children. In a 2021piece in Fro...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Haptic: The future of Pronunciation Teaching (and technology!)

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Nice piece on some of the areas of new development in virtual and augmented reality using haptic technology, Touching the air may be possibl...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

KINETIK Method Roll Out Video and What's Next!

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Go to the Roll Out Video The development of the KINETIK Method was inspired by classroom teachers who not only had little or no background i...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

KINETIK Method Roll Out Day: The Course, of course!

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 The Roll Out Video will be "out" later today. You can engage with it here and on other social media, of course! I'll be on Lo...
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