William Acton

450 total citations
17 papers, 180 citations indexed

About

William Acton is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Acton has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 180 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Language and Linguistics, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in William Acton's work include EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (3 papers). William Acton is often cited by papers focused on EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (3 papers). William Acton collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. William Acton's co-authors include Alexander Z. Guiora, Michael Burri, Amanda Baker and John A. Upshur and has published in prestigious journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

In The Last Decade

William Acton

16 papers receiving 134 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Acton United States 6 118 98 71 59 34 17 180
Janet Zhiqun Xing United States 6 105 0.9× 63 0.6× 61 0.9× 39 0.7× 33 1.0× 19 159
Ethan Kutlu United States 10 68 0.6× 88 0.9× 94 1.3× 61 1.0× 24 0.7× 28 224
Chandrika Balasubramanian United States 5 196 1.7× 178 1.8× 199 2.8× 60 1.0× 49 1.4× 7 327
Anne-France Pinget Netherlands 5 153 1.3× 149 1.5× 71 1.0× 101 1.7× 42 1.2× 11 260
Sandra Götz Germany 7 182 1.5× 63 0.6× 55 0.8× 101 1.7× 76 2.2× 21 225
Randal Holme Hong Kong 8 150 1.3× 113 1.2× 18 0.3× 82 1.4× 69 2.0× 12 220
Hiroko Matsuura Japan 8 202 1.7× 82 0.8× 168 2.4× 44 0.7× 95 2.8× 13 266
Nydia Flores‐Ferrán United States 8 269 2.3× 90 0.9× 207 2.9× 30 0.5× 33 1.0× 16 306
Miriam Eisenstein United States 8 193 1.6× 79 0.8× 113 1.6× 84 1.4× 92 2.7× 16 264
Meghan Moran United States 7 91 0.8× 131 1.3× 101 1.4× 59 1.0× 23 0.7× 12 205

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Acton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Acton

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Acton, William, et al.. (2022). Role-play and dialogic meta-pragmatics in developing and assessing pragmatic competence. 4(2). 228–263. 1 indexed citations
3.
Burri, Michael, William Acton, & Amanda Baker. (2019). Moving to L2 Fluency: The Tai Ball Chi Technique. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 43. 1 indexed citations
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Burri, Michael, Amanda Baker, & William Acton. (2019). Proposing a Haptic Approach to Facilitating L2 Learners' Pragmatic Competence. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 1. 2 indexed citations
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Burri, Michael, Amanda Baker, & William Acton. (2016). Anchoring academic vocabulary with a "hard hitting" haptic pronunciation teaching technique. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 17. 8 indexed citations
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Acton, William, et al.. (2013). Preliminaries to haptic-integrated pronunciation instruction. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 234. 18 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (2010). Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social & Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities: With Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of Its Attendant Evils. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Acton, William, et al.. (1999). Cooperative Attending Skills Training for ESL Students.. 1 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (1993). Marching to a Different Drama--LABO in the University ESL Classroom. 37(2). 245–267. 1 indexed citations
10.
Acton, William. (1993). Unmarried Wet-Nurses. Journal of Human Lactation. 9(2). 125–126. 1 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (1992). Technique Entropy in Language Teaching. 37(1). 321–327. 1 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (1989). CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PRONUNCIATION: PRACTICES ANCHORED IN THEORY. Joan Morley (Ed.). Washington, DC: TESOL, 1987. Pp. 121.. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 11(4). 479–479. 1 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (1984). Changing Fossilized Pronunciation. TESOL Quarterly. 18(1). 71–71. 83 indexed citations
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Guiora, Alexander Z., et al.. (1980). THE EFFECTS OF BENZODIAZEPINE (VALIUM) ON PERMEABILITY OF LANGUAGE EGO BOUNDARIES 1. Language Learning. 30(2). 351–361. 19 indexed citations
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Acton, William. (1979). Perception of Lexical Connotation: Professed Attitude and Socio-Cultural Distance in Second Language Learning.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 2 indexed citations
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Guiora, Alexander Z. & William Acton. (1979). PERSONALITY AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR: A RESTATEMENT1. Language Learning. 29(1). 193–204. 33 indexed citations
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Upshur, John A., et al.. (1978). CAUSATION OR CORRELATION: A REPLY TO OLLER AND PERKINS*. Language Learning. 28(1). 99–104. 6 indexed citations

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