- Research tells us that gesture helps us learn many things, including language
- Haptic means movement or gesture plus touch
- Touch makes use of gesture stronger and more effective
- Haptic helps us with modeling, feedback and correcting
- Make gesture/movement more consistent
- “Bind” the senses together, creating a better link between body and mind, visual and auditory
- Maintain attention (for at least 3 seconds--just enough)
- Add focus and intensity (aids remembering)
- Lets us explore new sounds and sensations, and then fades away quickly.
- Make smart phones and virtual reality games more exciting!
Teaching guidelines:
- Always do a warm up of some kind
- Anchor new sounds, corrections, vocabulary, idioms or phrases with pedagogical movement patterns (PMPs):
- Use Vowel PMPs (Modules 2 and 3) with word stress
- Use Butterfly PMP (Module 4) with long word or phrase (or fluency)
- Use Touch-i-nami PMP (Modules 5 and 8) for emotion and melody
- Use Fight club and Tai Chi PMPs (Modules 6 and 7) for energy, fluency and confidence
- Use dictionary PMP to teach haptic anchoring (Module 1)
- Model the word with a PMP first for students (Do PMP w/o saying the word first)
- “Do the PMP along with me!” (Students repeat along with instructor.)
- “Always repeat with the PMP” (When students practice)
- “Speak with a very resonant voice” (Whenever trying to anchor sounds)
- Teach with the haptic (AHEPS) videos, if possible (at least the first couple of times.)
- Practice mirror image teaching! (Teacher standing in front of class. Not critical, but in the long term, the best way to work)
- Have students practice new or corrected pronunciation at least 3x per week, for 2 weeks
- Use word lists with at least 9 words
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