Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Like many pronunciation and "speaking" specialists, I have long believed that in some way systematic use of music should be "...

ClipArt: Clker.com Three of the staples of pronunciation work, choral repetition, drill and reading have been making something of a com...

ClipArt: Clker.com How is your current "edutainmental quality of experience" (E-QoE), defined as degree of excitement, enjoy...

One of the less obvious shortcomings of virtually all empirical research in second language pronunciation intelligibility is that is gener...

Clipart: Clker.com Two friends have related to me how they conclude interviews. One (a) asks applicants "Napoleon's final quest...

Last month the field of language teaching and language sciences lost a great friend, colleague, researcher and theorist, Alexander Guiora ...

Clker.com Am often reminded of that great quip in the political cartoon Pogo, by Walt Kelly , embellished in the title of this post. In ...

Here's one for your " kitchen sink " file (a research study that throws almost every imaginable technique at a problem--and su...

Clipart: Clker.com   Is haptic pronunciation teaching for you? According to research, here's a way to check. Put on your exe...

Perhaps the greatest achievement of neuroscience to date has been to repeatedly (and empirically) confirm common sense. That is certainly th...

ClipArt: Clker.com It is getting to the point now that whenever you need advice on all things related to feeling or doing better, your d...

Credit: Anna Shaw One question I often pose to language teachers is something like: How do you teach rhythm? The most frequent answer...

Clipart: Clker.com Upcoming haptic workshop at the 2015 Tri-TESOL Conference in October 3rd, 2015 at Highline College, Des Moines, Was...

Clipart: Clker.com "Iran" into an interesting study recently by three Iranian reseachers looking into "The E...