Monday, June 3, 2013

13 Haptic pronunciation teaching proposals for TESOL 2014!

The Team (of about 30 Hapticians and Hapticians-in-training) has submitted 13 proposals for the 2014 TESOL conference in Portland, in March 2014. Here is are some of the titles/topics:
  • Workshop: Essentials of Haptic (kinesthetic+tactile)-integrated pronunciation instruction 
  • Workshop: Using haptic-integrated pronunciation with the Academic Word List
  • Workshop: Haptic consonant repair
  • Workshop: Teaching English intonation by non-native speakers
  • Practice-oriented session: Haptic pronunciation modeling with pre-literate L2 adults and children 
  • Practice-oriented session: Haptic-integrated pronunciation homework
  • Practice-oriented session: Speak fast; speak easy: The Butterfly Technique
  • Practice-oriented session: Conversational rhythm: The Fight Club
  • Discussion session: Haptic-integrated pronunciation teaching discussion (NNS/EFL)
  • Discussion session: Haptic-integrated pronunciation teaching discussion (NS/ESL)
  • Research-oriented session: Research basis of haptic-integrated pronunciation instruction
  • Research-oriented session: Empirical study of two haptic-integrated protocols
  • Research-oriented session: Haptic phonetics for phonetics instruction
Typically we get word on which has been accepted in early October. If you'd like further details on any of those proposals, let me know. (Actonhaptic@gmail.com)

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