Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

 Part 2 of the English Vowels and practice with stress in phrases and sentences.  Link to Lesson 5 Training Video (YouTube) Link to Lesson 5...

 The session starts at 8 EST on Google Meets. Lesson 4 focuses on single vowels in English and basics of (remembering) word stress. Even if ...

 Here are the links to L4 and the earlier videos and blog pages!  Link to L4 Training Video (Google Meets)   Link to L4 Trainng video ( You...

Link to L3 training video (Google Meets) Link to L3 training video (Youtube) Link to L3 Blog page. Link to L2 training video  (Google Meets...

 Every Wednesday, at 8 p.m. EST, in the English Accent and Pronunciation course, we have a live session on Google Meets that is a follow up ...

Heard back that some were unable to access the Google Meets recordings. Here are the links for both Google Meets and Youtube! Link to L2 tra...

Here we go! The training video:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/19hEbA_pt0ofZFDupV3kM90JRiScJDLwf/view?usp=sharing The blogpost with the m...

Our terrific haptic English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course begins next week. (Go here for details on the course!)  In preparing...

 If you have students, or colleagues  (or yourself!) who  have an IELTS speaking score of 5 or above, and  still have some accent or pronunc...

KINETIK – using the whole body to learn (especially gesture and touch) The EAPIC course is an innovative 10-week online program designed for...

The summer course begins with a short recorded introduction available on Youtube, June 26th! (See fuller course description here.)   It incl...

 A core component of the English Accent and Pronunciation Improvement Course is the weekly embodied oral reading. Each week students are tra...

The 2025 summer English Accent and Pronuncition Improvement Course (EAPIC) begins next month on the 26th. (The Spring course materials and v...

Have just begun working with the new AI bot "perplexity." Asked it about embodiment in language learning. Although its primary so...

 I'm reminded of the old saw: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes . . . In the midst of this meta analysis-lite of what it takes...

Interesting study out of the UK:  “ Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of b...

Course begins with recorded introduction on February 6th! In about two months make good progress in improving your English accent or pronunc...

EPIC PREVIEW POSTPONED - DUE TO MINOR HAPTIC MALFUNCTION HERE! CHECK BACK February 5th!!!  Spring 8-week course--Wednesday evenings 8~9 p.m....

This is an 8-week, weekend version of the regular English Accent and Pronunication Course. ( See the description of the full 12-week course ...

Since Haptic Pronunciation Teaching started back in 2005, a basic technique was the "Movement, tone and touch technique," the MT3....