Appreciate any ideas (feasible) about changing the world.
 
Try to help them acquire fluency in reading, writing and listening skills. You may also wanna try to help them enunciate as clearly as possible. Who cares about accents. As someone else said, the students most likely will have the accent of their own cultural group. 
 
Proper enunciation and accent reduction are different things. The former relates to intelligibility, the later refers to elimination of cultural traits.  Talking about accent reduction gives students the idea that their cultural group doesn't' speak properly and that they should sound like Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, or Carol Kouric, who allegedly don't have accents. It sounds like most people wanna focus on the former. As long as they don't sound like W it's ok. 
 
Andres
 
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