Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker It would be difficult to find anyone who does not support the use of music in language teaching, fo...

Clip With apologies to Olivia Newton-John , I still get that response occasionally in workshops and in reaction to blogposts. The focus...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Always looking for ways to enhance haptic anchoring, I came across some interesting new research   ...

Ever wonder why students may not be able to use a new piece of pronunciation in pair work or controlled conversation or on their way our th...

Clip art: Clker With apologies to Humprey Bogart , one of the basic "learning" assumptions in most training systems is that s...

Clip art: Clker Have done a few posts on "exercise persistence" research, trying to figure out how to help learners practice ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Haptic work is, by definition . . . touching! As explored in several previous posts, there are a w...

Clip art: Clker If you have been reading the blog occasionally, you are aware of the basis of the EHIEP model: (a) initial pronunciatio...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker May start a new series of blogposts focusing on amazing-looking pronunciation techniques that, fro...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker This is fun. Several of the pedagogical movement patterns in the EHIEP system involve either scratc...

Clip art: Clker At least a-parent-ly ! As reported in previous blogposts, semiotically, almost any framework for personality, behaviour...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Conscious Flash Suppression (CFS) technology could well be in the future of pronunciation teachin...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker This one is a bit of a stretch . . . stick with me. The impact of affect and emotion on pronunci...

  By late February everything should be ready for use in local programs, most anywhere on the planet.  At this point, these courses could ...

Clip art: Clker  How would you convince your students or colleagues as to the advantages of going "haptic?" Now assuming that...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker How's this for a conclusion? " . . . a person performs better when they receive a socia...

Photo credit: Library of Congress/Clker Intuitively, everyone from marketers to mothers understands the power of music to alter mood an...

For some learners, monitoring their spontaneous speech can be very problematic, interfering with fluency . . .  or ability to think! In man...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker Previous posts have looked at the potential impact of olfaction on pronunciation instruction. A ne...

Have you been watching any of the US presidential debates or video clips of both candidates? In doing a delightfully biased analysis of the...