Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

As promised, two or three great KINETIK courses now scheduled:  (For students, adults, lower intermediate and above) Embodied English Fluenc...

Great news! Just approved! That is the title of our upcoming half-day, 4-hour Pre-convention Institute at that the 2023 TESOL Convention in ...

Many in the field "look down on" using gesture and body movement extensively in pronunciation teaching; some of it is deserved, of...

Something of a radical idea . . . You can substantially improve your "Classroom English teaching presence" by talking pretty much ...

Once in a while, we should go back to the source, what inspired us to be in this field, just to understand better where are at the moment. ...

(Eye) moving study by Johansson, Nystrom, Dewhurst and Johansson of Lund University, entitled,  "Eye-movement replay supports episodic ...

If your students need help with basic pronunciation work --and remembering it-- and you don't have the time or training or cash on hand ...

Put this one on your list:  Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning, edited by Macrine, S. & Fugate, J.,...

There is no shortage of "talk" about pragmatics in research and pedagogy. In terms of methodology of teaching, most of it boils do...

An earlier, 2018 study, summarized by ScienceDaily.com as  Even mild physical activity immediately improves memory function,  by researchers...

The course is being offered to the public for the first time by the Trinity Western University MATESOL (LIVE on Zoom or by viewing the class...

Conference presentation later this month with Eileen McWilliams at the BCTEAL annual conference, entitled: How to Speak with Confident Vowe...

Interesting study, summarized on Technologynetwork.com, one pointing the way to potentially greater, systematic application of gesture in i...

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...