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My Fair Lady (Glenzer, 2005) (Presenting the stimulus material…
My Fair Lady (Glenzer, 2005)
Professor Higgins certainly gains Eliza's attention and informs her of the relevance of the objective.
- Enhancing retention and transfer
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At the horse races, Eliza attempts to be a lady by relying on her memory of weather and health conversation pieces. Her failure in saying too much, too loosely, for the Victorian values of the time, serves as a catalyst for self-reflection. Would Gagne not praise Higgin's efforts towards transfer of learning at the horse race?
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Getting Eliza to speak and act in the proper manner with a criterion of using London (as opposed to a Cockney) accent and to behave as a lady (as opposed to a street vendor).
- Stimulating recall of prerequisite learned capabilities
The 'carrot stick' of going to the ball, he dangles ever before her. Likewise, this stimulates recall of prior learning in making Eliza think about the grand people she had seen, dressed up, attending formal occasions.
When Eliza finally pronounces the rhyme correctly, the rain in Spain mainly in the plain, Higgins asks her to recite it again, again and again, and again. Unlike Skinner, he does not apply intermittent reinforcement (he is rather incessant).
- Presenting the stimulus material (Instructional strategies)
- Practice makes perfect serves the day and night behavioral drill that Eliza must follow.
- Repeating her vowels until she loses that dreaded accent consumes the professor. 'Listen to me speak and watch my mouth' he often says to her.
- He even places marbles in her mouth and requires her to then recite from a book as Demosthenes once practiced.
- Higgins engages in neo-behaviourist approach. In demonstrating the proper way to hold a teacup and saucer, he promotes the law of contiguity in movement (Guthrie cited in Gredler, 2001, p. 37). It seems akin to the modern movie, Pretty Woman, with the street worker Julia Roberts trying extremely hard to walk and talk like a lady.
- Because Professor Higgins lives and breathes as a professional linguist, he naturally relies on using phonetics to instruct.
- In agreement with operant conditioning, Higgins performs the following...
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(a) identifies the learner's entry skills,
Higgins writes detailed notes on Eliza's speech patterns while observing her on the street selling flowers. Later at his home, he records and analyses her speaking on a phonograph.
- Providing learning guidance
Constantly, Higgins assesses Eliza's performance by listening and recording her talk and by watching her closely.
The importance of observable behavior in stimulus and response actions shows Higgins using verbal reinforcement.
Further, Higgins uses chocolates and strawberry biscuits to condition improved performance from Eliza, associating learning with particular stimuli and correct responses with emphases on incentives and habits.