Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

In a recent workshop I inadvertently suggested that the relative distances between adjacent English vowels on various standard charts, such ...

Have just rediscovered Wesley's delightful classic "Directions Concerning Pronunciation and Gesture" , a short pamphlet pub...

Clker.com A common strategy of many learners when attempting to "get" the sound of a word is to close their eyes. Does that wo...

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...

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

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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...