Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Several earlier posts have alluded to the importance of  an explicit, systematic, "unawareness to awareness to unawareness" (U2...

As noted in an earlier post,  Brian Teaman, Mike Burri, Michelle Goertzen, Alaina Brodie and myself are doing a 45-minute, ...

Clipart: Clker Clipart of Nobel: Clker One of the basic assumptions of research in haptics has been that in most settings visual stim...

To quote Jean-Luc Godard , ‘It’s not where you take things from — It’s where you take them to.’  There is an excellent piece in this month...

Clipart: Clker (PTSD? interpreted: A condition afflicting some in the field of pronunciation teaching today such that they still find ext...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker One of the basic techniques of hypnosis ( or great sales ) is termed, future pacing. (Linked is the 1979...

There is much that we can learn from the field of social work in understanding how to assist students in integrating their classroom pronunc...

Picture courtesy of Wikipedia Generally "speaking," integration of pronunciation should focus on practice of conversational l...

Three years ago I did a workshop titled, "Full-bodied, systemic, multiple modality pronunciation instruction," at the 2010...

Clipart: Clker If you have an iPad, get ready for the next wave of pronunciation programs. If not . . . not to worry just yet. You won...

Have recently had some fascinating interaction with a grad student who was having a great deal of difficulty following the pedagogical movem...

Clipart: Clker Linked is a Science Digest summary of research by McCaffrey of Univ. of Mass., looking at overcoming obstacles to innovati...

Linked above is a demonstration of the new (shorter version of the) EHIEP warm up. It takes about four and a half minutes and loosens up jus...

Photo courtesy of Slashgear If you have to explain what "haptics" is to a colleague or student, from now on just let them tou...

Photo: Library of Congress Day at Duke University has a research project underway on memory for movement in dance that is worth participa...

In an earlier post, I have linked to a rubric that we use in evaluating the accuracy of a teacher-in-training's haptic pedagogical move...

Clipart: Ciker Socrates, in the Republic, (linked above in a great essay by the philosopher, Schopenhauer) was said to have said to a you...

Just got word that our proposal to do Attending Skills Training: Peer monitoring in conversation instruction at BC TEAL in May has been acc...

Clipart: Clker As we get ready to roll out the EHIEP haptic video system, I was working on "elevator talking points" for a broc...

Getting from classroom to conversation with "corrected" pronunciation of a word or process is the focus of HICP. Should you need a...