Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Have just created a blog for publishing reports, formal or informal , on classroom applications of haptic-integrated teaching. I have colle...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker Earlier posts have examined aspects of the visual field. In general terms, for at least English ...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker In this article from ScienceDaily, summarizing the research of Norton of the University of Houston,...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker In our continuing series about dealing with stress associated with pronunciation change, here's ...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker EHIEP protocols make use almost exclusively of self-touch, generally at the terminal point of a peda...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker In the development of our understanding of speech perception, one of the terms used by some research...

Clipart: Clker This is a fun article from the UK Independent (not exactly @ the top of the list of my favorite sources of research stud...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker Following up on a few recent posts dealing with what goes on outside of class, today we'll look ...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker A grad student is doing a research paper looking at the conditions under which learners are able to a...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker "Focus on form" has become a basic construct of contemporary language teaching. (Wikipedia...

Clipart: Clker SRBI is a very catchy acronym in contemporary eduction . The 12 principles involved, which focus on system-wide design ...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker Explaining how gesture can facilitate learning of sound and how sound, in turn, can be associated wi...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker The stress generated by pronunciation instruction, especially the "public" performance sid...

In a recent workshop, we had an especially anxious (and nearly belligerent) participant. In talking with him it became evident that the ...

Apropos for the day, a recent research study (summarized by ScienceDaily) by Padilla-Walker and Day of Brigham Young University on  factors...

Had a fascinating discussion with an ESL teacher recently who maintained that knowing basic IPA for English ( international ...

We are doing a workshop today at  King George International College in Vancouve r. One section of the handout has a helpful set of guidelin...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." (Winston Churchill) Books, wo...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker In workshops, I often begin with the question: What do you know about how your students work on thei...

Clipart: Clker Clipart: Clker The pedagogical movement patterns (PMP) of the Essential haptic-integrated English pronunciation (EH...