Accent reduction is interesting to me because Englsih text can be converted 
to English-like phonetic spelling via the free truespel.com converter.  If 
one can master handling pronunciation of the 40 sounds (and most of these 
sounds are in their own native language), they should be able to read the 
phonetic transcript in perfect English (the same accent as from talking 
dictionaries).

It could be that the accent problem is partly English spelling or the 
interpretation of how English spelling is said.  To beat that, show the 
reader/speaker phonetic text beside traditional text and describe to them 
which phonemes are not said correctly.  Then when a word is spoken correctly 
the next step is to remember it.  A help in remembering is to always have 
access to the phonetic text via the internet when needed.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4  truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at 
authorhouse.com.






>From: Heehee0617 at aol.com

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>Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1694] Re: Accent Reduction - Ideas 

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>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:57:38 EDT

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>I agree with you Andres.  I teach my students  that their accents are a 

>part

>of their culture and that is something not to shy  away from.  I can teach

>them prescriptive English but I cannot  teach them "to sound American."

>

>Alison Cochrane

>ESL Instructor

>QCC

>New York, NY

>

>"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I  have ended up

>where I needed to be. "

>~ Kahlil Douglas  Adams

>

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