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It argues that attention to breathing and vocalization, articulatory positions, tactile and pulmonic pressure, and coordinated pitch, duration, and movement enhances perception, pronunciation, and retention. The work proposes classroom techniques using breath and articulator exercises, hands and fingers to illustrate articulation and prosody, and larger movement activities to improve stress and rhythm. 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It asserts that careful attention to breathing, vocalization, articulatory positions, pulmonic and tactile pressures, pitch and duration, scope and synchrony of body movements, in addition to the systematic use of gestures, enables more effective pronunciation. It presents ways that teachers of English can embody features of pronunciation—making them more perceptible and representing them in clear and obvious ways to enhance perception, pronunciation, and retention. Classroom techniques described include pronunciation workouts such as breath training and articulator exercises; the use of simple devices, hands, and fingers to illustrate aspects ofarticulation and prosody; and larger body movements, such as the“Stress Stretch,” “Haptic Syllable Butterfly,” and “Rhythm Fight Club” to improve stress and rhythm.  \nCognition is essential in the act of speaking, since the brain first  \nforms verbal concepts and then controls their execution. Sim  \nilarly, listening is an active cognitive process that is perfected through time. In other words, developing speaking and listening skills in a second or foreign language requires cognitive resources and entails acquiring expertise that becomes increasingly automatized. Once cognitive resources are developed for the second language (L2), physical skills are invoked to produce the sounds and rhythms of speech. Scores of muscles in the head and neck are directly involved in speech. These speech muscles must be coordinated to perform speech actions. For actions to become automatic, deliberate practice and multiple  \nThe CATESOL Journal 30.1 • 2018 • 47  \nrepetitions are required (Kjellin, 1999) . Pronunciation, a significant component of speaking, is one of the speech actions that requires both cognitive control and automatization.  \nAll human physical activities that are extended in time tend tobe rhythmic, whether breathing, running, knitting, peeling potatoes, or speaking (Brown, 1990) . In addition to the muscles that actually produce speech sounds, the body performs other movements that actin synchrony with spoken language. Big muscle movements coincide with stressed words and syllables in normal spoken language. The employment of large muscle movements to enhance the perception and production of speech can have a positive effect on foreign language learners’ comprehension and recall of oral language (e.g., Burri, Baker,& Acton, 2016; Chan, 2016; Dahl & Ludvigsen, 2014) .  \nThe development of pronunciation skills is substantially more effective when integrated with conscious gestures and other body movement. For the purposes of this article, I will consider embodied pronunciation to refer to body movement that involves physical sensations perceptible through visible, auditory, kinesthetic, and proprioceptive modalities, and that expresses, signifies, or enhances one or more aspects of oral language. Further, I will contend that by focusing attention on embodiment, pronunciation learning and teaching can be enhanced.  \nThe Importance of Gestures  \nActions Speak Louder Than Words  \nA review of body language research helps provide context to the understanding of body language in L2 acquisition and, in particular, spoken language. In 1952, Birdwhistell pioneered the field of kinesics, that is, “facial expression, gestures, posture and gait, and visible arm and body movements” (Padula, 2009, p. 584) . Yet, in their volume analyzing conscious body language, Morris, Collett, Marsh, and O’Shaughnessy (1979) lamented that the importance of human gestures had been greatly underestimated, and that the science of gestures lagged far behind the science of linguistics. Fortunately, since those years, much more resear","cbCaiv5PzwPSLB4E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv5PzwPSLB4E","pdf",271670,22,"English","# Embodied Pronunciation Learning: Research and Practice\n## The Importance of Gestures\n## Actions Speak Louder Than Words\n## Gestures and Language Learning","[{\"question\":\"Embodied pronunciation learning focuses on which physical elements?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes body movement and sensations tied to visible, auditory, kinesthetic, and proprioceptive modalities, including breathing, vocalization, gestures, and touch-related aspects of pronunciation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the approach claim to improve English pronunciation?\",\"answer\":\"By coordinating articulatory positions and vocal features with body-supported timing and stress/rhythm, using gestures and larger movements to make pronunciation features more perceptible and easier to retain.\"},{\"question\":\"What classroom activities are suggested for teaching pronunciation?\",\"answer\":\"The text describes breath training and articulator exercises, using simple devices or hands and fingers to illustrate articulation and prosody, and using larger body movements such as “Stress Stretch,” “Haptic Syllable Butterfly,” and “Rhythm Fight Club.”\"}]","Embodied Pronunciation Learning: Research and Practice | PDF",55]