Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker I am often asked if there aren't some students and instructors that feel uncomfortable with mo...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker In a couple of earlier posts , the question of the potential impact of field dependence on haptic-...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Following up on the previous post, it appears that a little non-attention is perfectly normal--in ...

Clip art: Clker Indeed. In a good paper in the Proceedings of the 2011 PSLLT Conference, Messum, applying his application of Gattegno...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Mirroring, having learners move along with a model, is a common technique in pronunciation teach...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker At least in North American culture, lowering the pitch of one's voice has relatively predictab...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Your students think doing pronunciation work is wrong, find it threatening or just too messy? Have...

Clip art: Clker  If a picture is worth a thousand words, it appears that a virtual boundary may be even more valuable in pronunciation ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Ever been tempted to try using M&Ms to motivate students in your pronunciation work? (I have u...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker For most learners, efficient pronunciation change requires having consistent opportunities to prac...

I am really getting into this "scattergun" metaphor lately . . . Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker A recent blogpost, ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: CLker Think that it is time we extracted "rhythm" from the concept of "pronunciation....

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Nice set of slides from Derwing's plenary: What should L2 learners be able to expect from thei...

Clip art: CLker Clip art: Clker Very nice 2010  study by Boettinger, Park and Timmis of Leeds Metropolitan University, entitiled, ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker How often do you have learners who can do the "right," temporarily improved pronunciat...

Clip art: Clker Clker: Clip art  If you ever need a quick personality test on most anything, go to the BBC Science sit e. Some...

Clip art: Clker Photo courtesy of TherapyToronto  Ever wondered how orchestra conductors are able to get really great music out of ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker In an interesting 2008 review of " . .  . recommended pronunciation teaching approaches and t...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker (I could also have titled the post "EHIEPing . . . !) Have often been asked about the impact ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Coaching is big. In many ways, the model of the pronunciation-integrating teaching (PIT) is that o...