Multiple Exemplar Training - Emotions and Feelings: Vocabulary Builder - Learning Emotions and Feelings from Facial Expressions and Body Language

As part of the Multiple Exemplar Training for Vocabulary Building series, Multiple Exemplar Training - Emotions and Feelings teaches learners to identify emotions and feelings based on others' facial expressions and body language, which is one step ahead of identifying their own emotions and feelings, and also a prerequisite for more advanced perspective-taking skills (e.g., identifying emotions and feelings from social contexts and shared history). It not only helps learners label emotions and feelings but also helps them attend to social cues (e.g., facial expressions and body language).

The following 16 basic emotions and feelings are targeted and introduced in the exact order:

• Happy
• Angry/Mad
• Sad
• Scared
• Proud
• Excited
• Surprised
• Confused
• Bored
• Tired
• Sick
• Disgusted
• Hot
• Cold
• Hungry
• Hurt

The author has applied multiple exemplar training (MET; a.k.a. general case teaching) in the preparation of the teaching materials to facilitate generalization. For example, each target verb includes color photos, black and white photos, cartoons, and line drawings as teaching materials. Also, items of the teaching materials include as many features as possible from close-in to far-end exemplars. Characters of different ages, genders, and races are also covered in the materials to ensure diversity.