Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Full disclosure: the following post includes explicit, dance and intrapersonal touching, something of a follow up to two recent posts: Wh...

Mystery partially solved. In doing research on homework efficiency and compliance in pronunciation teaching, something I had never taken all...

About 40 years ago, in working with dyslexia in the family, specifically elementary school reading and spelling tests, we stumbled onto the ...

Clker.com If you will be at BCTEAL regional conference on 11/16 , please join Angelina Van Dyke and me for the "Full-body and voic...

This is the second of a series of posts introducing and exploring aspects of the new (RHYTHM-FIRST) v 5.0 haptic approach to pronunciation t...

Clker.com Bottom line: It’s almost impossible to LOVE pronunciation teaching unless you have seen or heard or had it done to you. And i...

A new study by Nakatsukasa (2019) demonstrates that using simple gesture to correct grammar (use of the 'ed' past tense) may not wor...

Rhythm, stress and intonation. There are, of course, phonaesthetic explanations  as to why we list those concepts in that order, including h...

The next advanced webinar will be on August 8th, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. (PST).  Familiarity with haptic pronunciation teaching (HaPT) is  requi...

There are countless studies demonstrating how under certain conditions repeating a word out loud enhances memory for it ( e.g., Sciencedaily...

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...