In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

feedback -- focusing & reinforcing
i wholeheartedly agree with you! in fact, giving negative feedback -- even when the intent is to correct, does little more than further reinforce the bad habit.

With respect to swimming and other skills -- I swam on the swim team for many years & I really can appreciate Albert Ip's comment. However, here's the rub -- if you use other parts of the brain & engage visualization, positive change can be made. Swim clinics are perfect examples -- underwater cameras and playbacks -- the swimmer can make a correlation between how the bad stroke looks (and feels) and thus how the good stroke looks (and feels).

Language acquisition is similar -- for example, the Rosetta Stone series of interactive CDs -- hearing oneself pronounce Swahili or Russian -- as one listens to the correct pronunciation constitutes a more "full brain" approach. The key is to engage more than one kind of learning at a time... visual + auditory; visual + kinaesthetic...
etc.

interesting concepts!! i really appreciated your comments at E-Learning Queen.
-- susan nash -- http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com