HICPR: HaPT-E Forum

HaPT-E Forum

Post your comments or questions here. I'll generally get back to you w/in 24 hours! (Be sure to check the Teaching Tips page, too!) In general, for the certificate course you just follow the coursebook, doing most of the exercises, including one 2x6 and then move on. How much you practice depends on you. If you do one module a week, that would mean doing the coursebook module on one day, for about an hour, and then practicing the PMP (pedagogical movement pattern) as "homework" 2 more times during the week, maybe 30 minutes each time. If you are naturally more kinaesthetic, just an hour may be sufficient. If not, maybe longer. After module 5 you do a video test of the PMPs from each of the modules, about 1 minute long or less, so you may need to go back and review. Ideally, when you practice you should begin with a warm up of some kind and review previous PMPs before you get to the new stuff!

Bill

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Bill ActonMay 22, 2016 at 5:41 AM
Once you sign up for the course or the course plus certification, we send the Course Book and Instructor Notes as PDFs, along with the current password for the videos (from Vimeo.com). If you have questions or comments, feel free to post them here or on email (info@actonhaptic.com). In the next six months, several of the videos will be replaced. As that happens you'll be provided with the new URLs, both here and as a direct email. The updated version of the DVDs will be available this fall. (If you have purchased DVDs, those will be replaced, free of charge as well.)
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Bill ActonMay 23, 2016 at 7:59 PM
Just got a question on the tests. Once you finish M5 or M10, you just email us and we'll send you the test format. We'll get back your results within a week or so. The feedback you'll get will give you an idea as to what we think of your PMPs, whether they are accurate enough to be used in modeling or correcting students in class. If you don't pass, you can take the part of the test over that was not up to standards. That is typically, just one or two 1-minute videos or one of the 10 questions on the short answer written final test is not good enough. If so, all you have to redo is just the specific question or two, not the whole thing. In other words, the tests are really just formative. Everybody passes . . . eventually!
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What is haptic pronunciation teaching?

Basically, it is using gesture, touch and movement to teach pronunciation of English (or any language). What makes this method unique is that it is based on controlled and systematic use of gesture in doing that. (Often the problem with gesture use in language learning is that it can be "crazy" or random or intimidating or inconsistent, or not well-developed and tied to clear outcomes.)

The earlier "Essential Haptic-integrated English Pronunciation (EHIEP) approach," now KINETIK, does a better job of enhancing presentation, modelling, feedback and correction. The method is simple and easy to follow. Once a 30-minute module is finished, teacher and students have a set of techniques to use in class anytime a pronunciation problem or opportunity comes up!

Haptic Preliminaries

I often begin workshops or papers with the comment that in about 40 years in the field I have had just one idea: that the systematic use of body movement is essential to effective and efficient pronunciation instruction. That has never been more relevant than today, with the general deemphasis on pronunciation and introduction of technology into the field. From both perspectives, the "haptic" perspective approach developed here offers great promise. I can at least promise you a "moving" experience!

What is the KINETIK Method?

KINETIK is the name of the new v6.0 haptic pronunciation teaching system. About six years earlier we were using the acronym, "Haptic Integrated Pronunciation for Other/Extended Circle English Speakers" (HIPOECES)--still there in the url of this blog!

Haptic-integrated clinical pronunciation is:

A different way to learn pronunciation, based in part on Arthur Lessac’s notion of “Training the body first.” It is also based on research in the use of movement and touch in learning and training. It:

Looks somewhat like a combination of aerobics, sign language and Taichi

Provides a basic foundation for continued, self-directed pronunciation learning and classroom instruction

Designed for use by relatively untrained teachers but appropriate for all teachers (and learners) of all levels

Focuses on pronunciation used in conversation (not all words in English)

Is a highly “brain-and-body-friendly” system that promotes efficient learning of integrated tasks in general

Designed to promote integrated classroom pronunciation instruction and enable integration of conscious pronunciation work into spontaneous speaking.

Introduction

This blog was formerly named: HIPoeces (pronounced 'hI-pƏ-cIs), basically an approach to teaching English pronunciation to speakers of "outer and expanding" circle Englishes (including that population commonly termed: non-native speakers) but also compatible with the use of local models other than simply Standard" American" or RP. Using Kachru's "Inner, expanding and outer circles" model to characterize the breadth of Englishes and speakers of those, HIPoeces (now HICP) systems focus on developing haptically-centered pedagogical models and methods which can be adapted for teaching the pronunciation of various Englishes as they are spoken and taught by "owners" of those varieties.

In theory, the underlying principles can be applied to teaching the sound system of any language. Most language instructors intuitively use a great deal of movement and tactile anchoring in the classroom. The essential question is how to use that resource systematically, especially so that those learners who are less "haptic" in nature are also "moved" by the method.

Simply put, the HICP model/method is based on the idea of speaking along with arm and hand movement, not all that different from that used in sign languages. Most movement patterns are taken from either typical classroom pronunciation instruction practice or from related fields, such as psychotherapy or sports.

Most blog posts link to research that relates to the general HICP model, that is studies dealing with the role of gesture, touch, movement, learning modalities, learning in output, use of the visual field in learning, and experiential learning.

DEFINITIONS:

"Haptic" techniques- procedures that involve both movement and touch (Obvious examples include clapping hands, tapping feet, or holding an object and shaking it to the rhythm of a poem.)

"HICP techniques" - procedures that are haptic and also explicitly coordinated with phonological structures and/or discourse prosody (For example, clapping hands on primary stressed syllables in multi-syllable words, or doing a dance step on key words in conversational turns.)

"Haptic integration"- The haptic dimension probably functions as much to anchor visual and auditory material as it does to assist the learner in getting the "felt sense" of the sound or sound process. Lack of integration into spontaneous speech being such a serious potential shortcoming of instruction, haptic engagement seems a promising bridge to more accurate fluency.

"Visual field" - in HICP extensive use is made of the visual field in front of the learner. (For example, a modified version of the IPA vowel chart is anchored haptically in the imagination of the learner, directly in front of the upper body, and used for several purposes throughout the program.)