Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Clker.com Tigger warning*: This post is more "pro-fun" than profound . . . (What I like to refer to as a 3-beet piece!) The ...

New article just published with Burri and Baker, Proposing a haptic approach to facilitating L2 learners’ pragmatic competence . This piece ...

Clker.com Reading (and thoroughly enjoying) Jordan Peterson's recent 2018 book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos . Although ...

Number 11 in the "Killing Pronunciation" series of blogposts. Clker.com Ortho-phon-a-phobia or OPP, fear of correcting or co...

Clker.com And another reason why good drill "works!" If there is a bottom line to (at least haptic pronunciation) teaching, ...

Fascinating study by Hutmacher and Kuhbandner of the University of Regensburg   (summarized by ScienceDaily.com) that helps us better under...

This Friday (April 12th) at 3:30 at the   BCTEAL conference   at Langara College, BC, we'll roll out the 2019 version of the Syllablette...

Clker.com Here is an instructive tale, describing a situation that may actually be becoming even more common, ironically, as textbooks ...

Every year after attending the TESOL convention, I do a slightly tongue in cheek report back to my program and friends. Here are some excerp...

If you are going to be in Atlanta for the 2019 Convention next week, stop by the Trinity Western University booth in the exhibition area t...

Clipart by Clker.com *Tigger warning: Research on rats generalized to people who appear to be losing it! Two fascinating studies w...

clker.com This feels like a "bigger" study, maybe even a new movement! (Speaking of new "movements", be sure to sign...

Tigger warning*: This post is (about) touching! Another in our continuing, but much "anticipated", series of reasons why haptic...

Next installment in our "Killing pronunciation" series: Bad habits or how to overcome them. (If you are not in the habit of follow...

Clker.com Once in a while you stumble on a study that seems, at least at first, to fly in the face of contemporary theory and methodolog...

Haptic engagement (adding touch to gesture) in pronunciation teaching began in 2005, in response to a number of potential problem(s) of usin...

 For details on the upcoming webinars, check here! Registration is closed! Join us in February 2019 for the next webinars!!!

The first haptic workshop, ( Acton, W., Baker, A. and M. Burri. 2008) . Haptic approaches to Intonation Instruction , was conducted 10 years...

The first training webinars for Haptic Pronunciation Training - English, Version 5.0, were held on December 7th and 8th, staged from Wollong...

Photo credit: ALAA No, we hapticians are not just doing more work with the rhythmic feet of Aussie English--although that is actually a...