Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Want to teach pronunciation but have no training and no time in class to do it even if you knew how?  We have a great new course for you: Ac...

Nice new book just out by Mark Hancock, 50 tips for teaching pronunciation.  Currently it is only available in hardcopy, but you can preview...

The study, “ Feeling Phonology: The Conventionalization of Phonology in Protactile Communities in the United States"  by Edwards of Sai...

Good news for those who still believe that their students just need lots and lots of exposure to the language in meaningful contexts--and th...

Rats! Well . . . actually . . . mice who are motivated to (voluntarily) exercise more are genetically set up or developed to have better, mo...

Keeping in touch doing pronunciation online with your students a problem? We've been working with what we call "haptic videos"...

New study by Udakis et al:  Interneuron-specific plasticity at parvalbumin and somatostatin inhibitory synapses onto CA1 pyramidal neurons s...

Following up on the previous blogpost on "distracting from distractions," here is a "delicious" study by Heyman, of Univ...

Now here is some "different" research from the Journal of Food Science Education and the journal, Perception, that you may have mi...

If you are new to haptic pronunciation, here is a quick history. (If not, drop down to after the bullets!) To understand the importance of t...

Have believed for . . . a long time . . . that early pronunciation instruction and learning is not only a higher calling, but  in some sense...

We (the MATESOL at Trinity Western University) are doing two FREE introductory webinars on haptic pronunciation teaching: Friday, October 2n...

For the last 5 or 6 years I have been working with a "new" accent enhancement system, based on haptic pronunciation teaching face-...

ClipArt by Early on in the development of haptic pronunciation teaching, we began by borrowing a number of techniques from Observed Expe...

A student just asked the question: How can I teach pronunciation in a mask? Where he is, already back in the classroom, he and most of his ...

Clker.com What do you do with your eyes when you are struggling to understand something that you are listening to? (Quick: Write that do...

Clker.com Excellent study by Martin, " Pronunciation Can Be Acquired Outside the Classroom: Design and Assessment of Homework-Based Tra...

Quick reminder:  Only one week to sign up for the next haptic pronunciation teaching webinars!  Sometimes getting a rise (ing pitch) out o...

Clker.com Caveat emptor: If you are emotionally co-dependent on Alexa, you might want to "ALEXA, STOP ME!" at this point. We l...

Another in our series of practices that undermine effective pronunciation instruction! Clker.com (Maybe) bad news from visual neurosci...