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Digital Identity Research and Pronunciation Teaching

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The "Fly-Chi": All you need is a little embodied, fluent rhythm--for "supra" vowels and consonants!

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About a month ago, I stumbled on to a pair of "haptic" techniques, using "supra-segmentals," that is rhythm, stress and ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

"Ward off" (at least some) miscommunication in your English conversation teaching

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For anybody serious about pronunciation teaching, Nigel Ward's excellent 2019 book, Prosodic patterns of English conversation , is a mu...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Metanoic English pronunciation training for the brain!

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If you are not familiar with Daniel Amen MD's system and new book, Change your brain everyday, you may want to check it out. I bought it...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Better pronunciation at your fingertips!

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New favorite terms: viscoelastic and deformation . Recent research by Hannes, Ingvars and Roland, "Memory at your fingertips: how visc...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Talk (to) Yourself into Improved English Fluency! (an almost DO-IT-YOURSELF course!)

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Clker.com And how do you do that? In part, using embodied oral reading to develop English fluency and confidence. The efficacy and methodol...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

BCTEAL Online Collaborative Attending Skills Training Seminar

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Still time to sign up for the next British Columbia Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BCTEAL) seminar (See description below!) ...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

A Super Somewhat "Solipsistic" Solo Method for Greatly Improving English Speaking Fluency!

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COURSE closed! But we are opening another soon! Keep in touch! I know what you are thinking . . .well, actually, "solipsistically"...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Introducing KINETIK (v7.0) Method: Enhanced memory, expressiveness, pronunciation--with ChatGPT.

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Join us at the 38th Costa Rica National Conference for Teachers of English  June 9, 4 p.m.~5:30 p.m. PST. The great, 4-day virtual conferen...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Touching English Language Teaching . . . Using Touch!

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If you are going to be at the BCTEAL 2023 Conference   on May 6th (at 11 a.m.) at the University of British Columbia, please join me in a 1-...
Friday, April 7, 2023

CAST away stress: The Forest Walkabout-Talkabout

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If you are going to be at the 2023 BCTEAL Annual Conference on May 5th (at 11 a.m.) at the University of British Columbia, please join us, ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Using gesture and movement to avoid "Pop Outs" in (pronunciation) teaching!

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I like this study. One of the biggest obstacles in effective teaching (of anything) are sudden distractions, when what should have "pop...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Why exact repetition may be exactly . . .wrong (in pronunciation teaching and elsewhere)

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This study is potentially something of a game changer, at least conceptually. A little background. In KINETIK work we make extensive use of ...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Do-it-(almost by and with)-yourself: English SELF-TALK Pronunciation Improvement (ESPI)

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How's your pronunciation and diction when you talk (out loud) to yourself? Probably not great, right? Well, how about using that venue/m...
Friday, January 27, 2023

One who hesitates is NOT lost (when repeating new words to remember them better by)

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                                                    (Credit: Clker.com) Actually, the study (Summarized by Neurosciencenews.com)  Repeating ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Free, half of the new 10-week KINETIK Fluency and Pronunciation Course!

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Join us beginning February 15th for the course. (The PROMO poster is posted below.) Works like this: Every Wednesday morning I'll post t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

KINETIK and Haptic Pronunciation Teaching at TESOL 2023 in Portland!

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Haptic Pronunciation Teaching at the upcoming TESOL 2023 Convention in Portland, March 21~24th! Doing two presentations: A pre-convention In...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Getting in the right mood for enhancing your work (and even pronunciation!)

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You "up" for a little meta-theory?  Fascinating study, open source, published in Frontiers in Communication by Lai, Berkum and Hag...
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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Spring 23 KINETIK Courses!

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Spring 2023 KINETIK courses now scheduled.  KINETIK Method: a full-body/haptic approach to both pronunciation teaching and enhancing memory ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Ben Bruno's "10 Commandments of physical training" applied to pronunciation teaching!

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Ben Bruno , personal trainer to the stars, has a super set of principles for training that could as well be a guide to (haptic) pronunciatio...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Context, AI voice technology, haiku and (pronunciation) teaching

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Two studies just published and summarized by ScienceDaily.com together illustrate how critical context is to understanding and (pronunciatio...
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