Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

I like this study. One of the biggest obstacles in effective teaching (of anything) are sudden distractions, when what should have "pop...

This study is potentially something of a game changer, at least conceptually. A little background. In KINETIK work we make extensive use of ...

How's your pronunciation and diction when you talk (out loud) to yourself? Probably not great, right? Well, how about using that venue/m...

                                                    (Credit: Clker.com) Actually, the study (Summarized by Neurosciencenews.com)  Repeating ...

Join us beginning February 15th for the course. (The PROMO poster is posted below.) Works like this: Every Wednesday morning I'll post t...

Haptic Pronunciation Teaching at the upcoming TESOL 2023 Convention in Portland, March 21~24th! Doing two presentations: A pre-convention In...

You "up" for a little meta-theory?  Fascinating study, open source, published in Frontiers in Communication by Lai, Berkum and Hag...

Spring 2023 KINETIK courses now scheduled.  KINETIK Method: a full-body/haptic approach to both pronunciation teaching and enhancing memory ...

Ben Bruno , personal trainer to the stars, has a super set of principles for training that could as well be a guide to (haptic) pronunciatio...

Two studies just published and summarized by ScienceDaily.com together illustrate how critical context is to understanding and (pronunciatio...

This piece from Neurosciencenews.com (or as we tend to call it: New-Old-Science) on empathy and imitation, using chopsticks, is just too mu...

Maybe the biggest problem with pronunciation teaching (other than time, training and "bokoos" of counter-productive techniques) is...

GE-T-UP - Gesture-enhanced-teaching-up-take (pronounced: Get-T-up! as in "Giddup!") Custom-made, "memorable" pronunciati...

"con-'tent or 'con-tent?" take your pick there! (The correct answer is the latter; however, if you are not really the form...

Caveat emptor: Being a runner, I tend to find research "on the run" first which I "test" during my morning 5k and then o...

Some vowels just get no respect (or much attention in teaching!)--but they should!  If you are in Des Moines, Washington this Saturday, come...

Learning and teaching pronunciation does not have to be traumatic, although for some it just may be! There is, however, a great deal to be l...

An intriguing new study by researchers at East Anglia University, Aix-Marseille University and Maastricht University, summarized by Neurosci...

Cilker.com Fascinating new research--with intriguing implications: "Hand constraint reduces brain activity and affects the speed of ver...

"Eye catching" new study on the function of eye scanning movements in memory creation and access, Eye-movement replay supports epi...