Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

About a month ago, I stumbled on to a pair of "haptic" techniques, using "supra-segmentals," that is rhythm, stress and ...

For anybody serious about pronunciation teaching, Nigel Ward's excellent 2019 book, Prosodic patterns of English conversation , is a mu...

If you are not familiar with Daniel Amen MD's system and new book, Change your brain everyday, you may want to check it out. I bought it...

New favorite terms: viscoelastic and deformation . Recent research by Hannes, Ingvars and Roland, "Memory at your fingertips: how visc...

Clker.com And how do you do that? In part, using embodied oral reading to develop English fluency and confidence. The efficacy and methodol...

Still time to sign up for the next British Columbia Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BCTEAL) seminar (See description below!) ...

COURSE closed! But we are opening another soon! Keep in touch! I know what you are thinking . . .well, actually, "solipsistically"...

Join us at the 38th Costa Rica National Conference for Teachers of English  June 9, 4 p.m.~5:30 p.m. PST. The great, 4-day virtual conferen...

If you are going to be at the BCTEAL 2023 Conference   on May 6th (at 11 a.m.) at the University of British Columbia, please join me in a 1-...

If you are going to be at the 2023 BCTEAL Annual Conference on May 5th (at 11 a.m.) at the University of British Columbia, please join us, ...

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...