Materials for PEECSS: RILS presentation

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Materials for PEECSS PEECSS=Portable

Extended & Embodied Cognitive

Self Sourcing

Nena Nikolic, Tim Murphey & Tara McIlroy

Wednesday, November 6, 13

"(i) Mind, body, and world are in continuous

processes of interactive alignment; (ii) These

processes are partly public; and (iii) In being

public, they are learnable."

Atkinson, 2010, p.611.

“The mind is inherently embodied.

Thought is mostly unconscious.

Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”

Lakoff & Johnson, 1999, p.3

Examples of PEECSS activities

proverbs

stories

chants

songs diaries

mottos

nursery rhymes

Nena: PEECSS Activities teaching childhood education

PEECSS activity # 1: Awesome people reading task

PEECSS activity # 2: Personal motto + picture task

PEECSS activity # 3: reading + writing poetry

Tim: PEECSS activities with Power Poses

Spreading the word about PEECSS activities

Website

Trialing materials Embodied cognition in the curriculumDeveloping resources for teachers

Next steps:

Thank you for listening

PEECSS!

References

Atkinson, D. (2002). Towards a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition. The Modern Language Journal, 86, 525-45. Atkinson, D. (2010) Extended, embodied cognition and second language acquisition. Applied Linguistics, 31 (5) 599-612Clark, A. & Charmers, D. A. (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58 (1), 7-19.Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. New York: Basic Books.McIlroy, T., Nikolic, N., Wright, S. and Murphey, T. (2011) Portable Extended and Embodied Self-Sourcing. PeerSpectives #7 pp10-13 (summer). Thornbury, S. (2013). The learning body--Embodied learning. JALT 2013 conference presentation. Kobe..Wilson, M. (2002) Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2002, 9 (4), 625-636.

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