Y? were u confused?

 

________________________________

From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Steinbacher,
Mikal
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:57 PM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: RE: [EnglishLanguage 1696] Re: Accent Reduction -
IdeasforSpecialTopics Dis...

 

And eliminate reductions  ... such as "wanna".  I teach my students
reductions and what they mean, and then tell them to NOT use them
because reductions + accent = confusion for the listener!

 

________________________________

From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Muro, Andres
Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 4:40 AM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List;
englishlanguage at nifl.gov
Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1696] Re: Accent Reduction -
IdeasforSpecialTopics Dis...

 

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

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/englishlanguage/attachments/20070821/37c3a31a/attachment.html