Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Workshop to be presented at the TESOL Convention, Wednesday, 23 March, 14:00-15:45 US EST in Room 333 at The David L. Lawrence Convention Ce...

The full  title of our TESOL 2022 presentation: Spontaneous classroom conversational analysis supporting development L2 pragmatic competence...

About 30 years ago, at the KOTESOL annual conference, I did a plenary talk, something of a demonstration of the power of using gesture, pros...

A few (4) decades ago, in my first TESL course as an undergrad, we had a sentence something like the following, where the "point" ...

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching "Touching Base" at TESOL 2022 Convention in Pittsburgh, March 22~25th! If you will be at the conven...

Size DOES matter it turns out, according to research by Masarwa, Kreichman, and Gilaie-Dotan of Bar Ilan University and University College L...

As announced here on the blog , the new KINETIK English Fluency and Pronunciation Course is on.  Especially designed for students who do not...

How important is general/not directly task-based body movement, especially the lack of it, to learning pronunciation, creativity or just lea...

Avoiding, correcting, accepting, embracing errors . . . take your pick in pronunciation (and all) instruction as to how you respond when lea...

Here is a pair of studies just too good to believe which suggest that you can train subjects (students?) to become more conscientious withou...

As promised, the new (Amazing!) KINETIK Method student and instructor courses are ready to go!  KINETIK Method:  Embodied fluency, content a...

 If you'd like a preview of the new KINETIK Method Pronunciation Teaching Certificate Course, join us later today at the next Hapticanar...

The next Hapticanar (Haptic webinar) is part two of the haptic system for teaching the vowels of English, at the regular wenbar time, July 1...

Haptic pronunciation teaching does an especially good job of teaching vowels and basic word stress. In this webinar we begin with what we ca...

Duh best, most moving and efficient technique for duh 'th' sound and den some! One reason dat many metodologists advise not making ...

 Three ways to take the course! 1. (FREE) Attend the weekly Haptic(web)inars, Tuesdays at 6 p.m. PST. Learn one technique per week. Tomorrow...

Come to the next Haptic(web)inar and find out! To get there, go to the website and register . While you are there, check out videos of the I...

Note: This is definitely NOT your "grandma's way" of teaching pronunciation or grammar! Classroom work using the KINETIK Meth...

 6 p.m. PST (1800)! The first of the (free) weekly, one-hour "Hapticanars." Here is the link to tonight's! Just click and yo...

 Well . . . first one, actually! Just a little over 24 hours before the  Introductory free Hapticanar. No need to register in advance for th...