Key terms and acronyms 

  • Actonhaptic.com – Main website for Acton Haptic Pronunciation Community

  • AHEPS (Acton Haptic English Pronunciation System) – the haptic video course (v2.0~v3.5).

  • AHP (Acton Haptic Pronunciation) Acton Haptic Community (formerly at ActonHaptic@locals.com)

  • Anchoring – Process of associating a sound with a gesture + touch pattern

  • Body awareness and body agency – Being able to consciously assess the state or “feeling” at locations throughout the body and being able to actively manage body movement in both practice and spontaneous conversation. Both terms are associated with the Mindfulness Training™

  • EFPC – (English fluency and pronunciation course) Online course for students, offered 2021-2023, still available for custom design purposes by schools.

  • EHIEP (Essential Haptic-integrated English Pronunciation) – the basic instructional method (v1.0), begun in 2008.

  • Embodiment

  • ·       a tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling

  • ·       the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing

  • ·       activities where gesture and awareness of body sensations are used explicitly in instruction

  • ·       https://embodimentpodcast.libsyn.com/

  • “Feed-forward” – A feature of the KINETIK Method where there is a very clear line of tasks that build upon each other and can be understood by students as having that important “scaffolding,” progressive skill build up function in learning.

  • Felt sense - Awareness of both the feeling of a sound or experience AND some cognitive, conscious understanding as well, both working together, as in teaching or therapy.

  • HaPT (Haptic Pronunciation Teaching) – General pronunciation teaching method begun in 2006

  • Haptic – Using movement and touch

  • Haptician - Instructor trained in Haptic Pronunciation Teaching and certified to do basic teacher training in KINETI

  • HFT - Acton Haptic English Fluency Training. The new (2023) from for AHP student courses, based on use of Embodied Oral Reading, plus application of individual student text choice for homework practice.

  • HICPR blog (Haptic-integrated Clinical Pronunciation) – The general approach that focuses on “clinical” practice, that is face-to-face engagement in the classroom.

  • Haptic Phonetics - use of the HaPT MT3s or derivatives in representing, in principle, any sound of any language.

  • KINETIK™ current name of the method, in effect since 2021 (v6.0)

  • KMICC - KINETIK™ Method Instructor Certificate Course

  • Lessac, Arthur – (1909~2011) Creator of the Lessac Kinesensic Training for the voice and body system, and early inspiration for KINETIK.

  • MT3s – Movement, tone and touch techniques (earlier term: MT3s “pedagogical movement patterns”)

  • Node – Point at the end of a gesture where the hands touch each other or the upper body

  • Pedagogical Movement Pattern (MT3) (See MT3s)

  • Protocol – A set of steps used in teaching an MT3 or other instructional technique or conceptual framework.

  • Resonance – Feeling in the body, especially in the bones of the head and neck accompanying the production of a sound.

  • Stroke – Movement portion of a gesture, prior to touch on a node, on a stressed syllable in a word or phrase

  • Touch – In KINETIK there are about a dozen distinct kinds of touch, each associated with a sound or sound process.

  • “Touch-i-nami” – KINETIK term for an intonation contour (stroke in the form of a wave, culminating in touch and some additional movement)

  • Track – The basic path of a gesture across the upper body

  • Uptake - New information is recognized and at least partially integrated into the knowledge system of the learner.

  • Visual field – Space in front of the upper body used in KINETIK work, roughly from belt level to just above the head and from about 6 inches beyond each shoulder, and also extending out approximately 12 inches out from the body.

  • Vowel Compass/clock – Display in the visual field oriented on both a compass (N, S, E, W) with a clock imposed upon it, used for “anchoring” vowels and orienting some other MT3, such as “key” (different tone levels as in music). Something resembling the IPA vowels chart for the vowels of a language is imposed on the visual field, but in mirror-image, i.e., the “front vowels” are on the right and the “back vowels” are on the left. (See Instructors Notes for further rationale for that display.)

  • SHEOR - Spontaneous haptic-embodied oral recasting, where a piece of spontaneous speech is taken down in media of some kind or “simply” recalled from auditory memory.

  • 2x6 – Standard dialogue structure, an embodied oral reading, used in EFPC where there are two conversants, each with six turns, usually 12 lines long