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Portable Extended and Embodied Cognitive Self-Sourcing Nena Nikolic, Tim Murphey & Tara McIlroy Portable Extended & Embodied Cognitive Self Sourcing (PEECSS) activities are personally meaningful emotional-cognitive acts based on mantras, sayings, poems, games, songs, stories, objects, routines, etc. These have some language learning use and are sometimes tied to movements, gestures, artifacts, and treasured memories. PEECSS activities scaffold language learning and at the same time can help learners gain more control (agency) over their emotions. Derived partially from extended and embodied cognition (Atkinson, 2010) and brief therapy ideas, we provide several examples of PEESS activities from our own classes in this materials development project.
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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.
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“The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”
Lakoff & Johnson, 1999, p.3
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Examples of PEECSS activities
proverbs
stories
poems
chants
songs diaries
mottos
nursery rhymes
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Nena: PEECSS Activities teaching childhood education
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PEECSS activity # 1: Awesome people reading task
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PEECSS activity # 2: Personal motto + picture task
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PEECSS activity # 3: reading + writing poetry
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Tim: PEECSS activities with Power Poses
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Spreading the word about PEECSS activities
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Website
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Trialing materials Embodied cognition in the curriculumDeveloping resources for teachers
Next steps:
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Thank you for listening
PEECSS!
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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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