Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

A common question we get is something to the effect of "How do the pedagogical gestures (PMPs - movement across the visual field termin...

Quick answer: Most of the time haptic video-based AH-EPS (Acton Haptic English Pronunciation System)  is better than EHIEP live, at least in...

I got that question yesterday at the conference after our Tai Chi and linking workshop. (Shine, Olya and I will do a blogpost on the specifi...

Clip art: Clker This one will be fun. If you are in Vancouver next Saturday, join us:  Workshop to be presented at the BCTEAL Lower...

As reported in earlier posts, no matter how terrific our attempt at pronunciation teaching is, if a learner isn't paying attention or is...

I'm doing a plenary at the BCTEAL regional conference next week. Here is the abstract: Credit: Villanova.edu ...

Along with release of v2.0 of Acton Haptic English Pronunciation System will be a new set of 4, 2-module packages: Vowels and word stress,...

Have done several previous posts that "touch" on the effects of interpersonal touch, such as " healing touch ." In our k...

Clip art: As unpacked in earlier posts, "mindfulness" theory is often a good point of departure for understanding and managin...

Kudos to CNN Tech Trends for this nice 14-slide piece by Arion McNicoll  on haptics and new haptic gadgets. If you are just getting "in...

For a while I had a special label for research reports that managed to confirm what any teacher with a modicum of common sense had figured ...

If you are new to the idea of haptics and "haptic," here is a neat 6 minute TEDYouth 2012 talk by Kuchenbecker of University of Pe...

Here is the abstract and URL for a paper by Brian Teaman and myself just published in the  JALT Conference Proceedings: JALT 2012 : In thi...

Here is the abstract and URL for a paper by Mike Burri, Amanda Baker, Brian Teaman and myself just published in  Proceedings of the 4th Pron...

Clip art: Clker Have been holding back on publishing this post on a somewhat different application of the EHIEP (Essential haptic-integr...

Literally for decades I was working under the assumption that gesture and general body movement work, in principle, was a good way to loosen...

There were at least a dozen explicitly "haptic" pronunciation teaching proposals that were submitted for the convention that I a...

Clip art: Clker An excellent general framework, or place to start, in looking at the use of gesture in pronunciation teaching is Natalie...

Clip art: Clker A new study by researchers from  Laboratoire de psychologie et neurocognition (LPNC) (CNRS/Université Pierre Mendès Fran...

Credit for image:  Thehungergames.wikia.com Amanda Baker, Mike Burri and myself are proposing a chapter for a proposed book on integra...