Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

We call it "haptic pronunciation teaching." That is actually shorthand for something like: simultaneous haptic-integration of vis...

Acton, W. (in press). OEI and accent reduction, in Bradshaw, R. (Ed.) Toward integration: Clinical applications, Vancouver: Sync publication...

Do you play background music in class, especially when working on pronunciation? I have for years used highly regular, rhythmic music during...

New book chapter in the TESOL "New Ways" series by Michael Burri (Wollongong University) on using haptic pronunciation anch...

I am often asked in what contexts or classrooms haptic pronunciation teaching works. Assuming enthusiastic, full-body buy-in by the instruct...

On the 22nd of November at the local BCTEAL regional conference , I'll be doing a new haptic workshop on unstressed vowels, with Aihua ...

These videos are still a work in progress but will give you a pretty good idea of what each module of Acton Haptic English Pronunciation Sys...

Nice post by Wilson and Conyers on Edutopia blog  looking at teaching metacognitive skills to kids. (Some of the links off the post are good...

For the 8th year in row, a haptic pronunciation teaching workshop has been accepted for presentation at the TESOL conference in Toronto, ...

Here in Vancouver we are getting ready to collaborate as usual in writing haptic proposals for a couple of upcoming conferences. Here is our...

Should you still need more convincing as to the value and contribution of gesture in L2 learning and instruction, the September 2014 issue o...

Clip art: Clker Listen to this! (You may even want to sit down before you do!) New study showing how movement can affect listening by Mo...

More fascinating research on the role of gesture in learning from Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago, summarized by Science Daily. ...

 Credit: Clker/ Library of Congress One of the delights of having been in the field for a few decades is seeing "new" researc...

Mindfulness  is big. It is described a number of ways, according to Wikipedia: "Mindfulness is a way of paying attention that origina...

Clip art: Clker How essential is homework/practice to the success of your students? Interesting set of four pieces on homework linked o...

Clip art: Clker Have for years, often in jest, pointed an accusing finger at the pre-frontal cortex as at least contributing to the dif...

Credit: Hapticallyspeaking.com Have been meaning to do a blogpost on a project of Dr David Hurd Professor of Geosciences and Planetarium...

 "Words, words, words." (Hamlet) There is probably no topic more controversial in pronunciation teaching than the role of repeti...

Clip art: Clker Time to check your homework . . . How's this for a formula for success: Instruction (in class, f2f or online) + out...