Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Digital Identity Research and Pronunciation Teaching

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Using gesture and movement to avoid "Pop Outs" in (pronunciation) teaching!

›
I like this study. One of the biggest obstacles in effective teaching (of anything) are sudden distractions, when what should have "pop...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Why exact repetition may be exactly . . .wrong (in pronunciation teaching and elsewhere)

›
This study is potentially something of a game changer, at least conceptually. A little background. In KINETIK work we make extensive use of ...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Do-it-(almost by and with)-yourself: English SELF-TALK Pronunciation Improvement (ESPI)

›
How's your pronunciation and diction when you talk (out loud) to yourself? Probably not great, right? Well, how about using that venue/m...
Friday, January 27, 2023

One who hesitates is NOT lost (when repeating new words to remember them better by)

›
                                                    (Credit: Clker.com) Actually, the study (Summarized by Neurosciencenews.com)  Repeating ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Free, half of the new 10-week KINETIK Fluency and Pronunciation Course!

›
Join us beginning February 15th for the course. (The PROMO poster is posted below.) Works like this: Every Wednesday morning I'll post t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

KINETIK and Haptic Pronunciation Teaching at TESOL 2023 in Portland!

›
Haptic Pronunciation Teaching at the upcoming TESOL 2023 Convention in Portland, March 21~24th! Doing two presentations: A pre-convention In...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Getting in the right mood for enhancing your work (and even pronunciation!)

›
You "up" for a little meta-theory?  Fascinating study, open source, published in Frontiers in Communication by Lai, Berkum and Hag...
1 comment:
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Spring 23 KINETIK Courses!

›
Spring 2023 KINETIK courses now scheduled.  KINETIK Method: a full-body/haptic approach to both pronunciation teaching and enhancing memory ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Ben Bruno's "10 Commandments of physical training" applied to pronunciation teaching!

›
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...
1 comment:
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Context, AI voice technology, haiku and (pronunciation) teaching

›
Two studies just published and summarized by ScienceDaily.com together illustrate how critical context is to understanding and (pronunciatio...
1 comment:
Friday, December 16, 2022

Bite your chopstick, knave! (How restricting imitation might enhance empathy but not pronunciation teaching!)

›
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...
Monday, December 5, 2022

More than a touch less stress in pronunciation teaching!

›
Maybe the biggest problem with pronunciation teaching (other than time, training and "bokoos" of counter-productive techniques) is...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Mi Coursa; Su Coursa! (NEW KINETIK "GE-T-UP" course!)

›
GE-T-UP - Gesture-enhanced-teaching-up-take (pronounced: Get-T-up! as in "Giddup!") Custom-made, "memorable" pronunciati...
8 comments:
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Content with your pronunciation teaching? Au contraire!

›
"con-'tent or 'con-tent?" take your pick there! (The correct answer is the latter; however, if you are not really the form...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

"Breathtaking" running and (haptic pronunciation) teaching!

›
Caveat emptor: Being a runner, I tend to find research "on the run" first which I "test" during my morning 5k and then o...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Flicking off unstressed (and less stressed) vowels in English!

›
Some vowels just get no respect (or much attention in teaching!)--but they should!  If you are in Des Moines, Washington this Saturday, come...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

PTSD: Pronunciation Teaching Somatically (Experienced and) Delivered

›
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...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

What comes next in pronunciation teaching! (Why being in touch is so important!)

›
An intriguing new study by researchers at East Anglia University, Aix-Marseille University and Maastricht University, summarized by Neurosci...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Killing (Pronunciation) Learning 16*: Move (with) it or Lose it!

›
Cilker.com Fascinating new research--with intriguing implications: "Hand constraint reduces brain activity and affects the speed of ver...
Friday, August 19, 2022

A "Scanpath" down Memory (for pronunciation) Lane: The Eyes have it!

›
"Eye catching" new study on the function of eye scanning movements in memory creation and access, Eye-movement replay supports epi...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.