As the developer of the Proprioceptive Language Learning Method[1], I need your help.
This entirely new method for spoken language instruction is extremely popular with students because they are learning spoken English so much more quickly than they have ever learned it before. But that does not mean that the method is complete. Far from it. The method actually needs much more work before it is fully developed.
The world's truly great ideas and technologies have never been perfected by a single individual. Typically, there is an innovator who initially introduces the idea. Yet before that idea becomes truly successful, many others need to make significant contributions and changes. Just as this has been true in the development of flight, powered ships, electronics, and photography (to name just a few), so it has been true in every area of education.
I believe that the emphasis the Proprioceptive Method places on training the tongue's nerve receptors simultaneously with memory is totally new and different from all other language learning methods. (See Chapter 1 Training Your Tongue to Speak English in the downloadable book Learning Spoken English.) It certainly is not a part of ESL methodology. It was not a part of the Direct Method, and it was not a part of the Audio-Lingual Method.
Yet the originator of the Proprioceptive Method is not the one to perfect it. You who are instructors of spoken language are the ones to do so. This method needs evaluation, criticism, and correction by many others who are in the field of language instruction. It also needs that evaluation from a large number of language specialists who do not speak English as their first language.
The Proprioceptive Method's greatest weakness is that it has not been statistically compared with other methods. It also needs to be applied on a larger scale than it can be as a single course on this website.
Finally, I am not interested in promoting my name as the developer of this method. I want the method itself to succeed after others have assisted in improving it. My greatest desire is that, by using this method, students studying spoken languages will become fluent speakers of their target language in considerably less time than it now requires. To that end, it serves my purpose best if others who evaluate and develop this method receive full credit for their work.
This is what I suggest to those of you who are university and college instructors in spoken languages, or who are post-graduate students planning a thesis subject:
Lynn Lundquist,
Spoken English Learned Quickly Program Developer
[1] This method was first introduced as the Proprio-Kinesthetic Method. Because the original name was more difficult to use, it is now called the Proprioceptive Method. The names are synonymous. More commonly, however, it is also called the Feedback Training Method because it is the feedback from the mouth and ears that is used to retrain the muscles which produce the sounds when learning a new language. The terms proprio-kinesthetic and proprioceptive define the feedback and control of nerves and muscles during speech. Consequently, all three names are describing the method used to retrain the nerves and muscles while learning a new language. Back
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