Hi my name is Vashti and I am a student at Georgia State University. I am in the instructional Technology program. I am new to the discussion list and I am very interested in the accent reduction topic that everyone has been talking about. My question to everyone is "what constitutes good communication? and what do accents have to do with communication? 
 
Vashti E. Canty 
Masters in Instructional Technology
vashti.e.canty at delta.com

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Indeed.  The object is to communicate.  Recently I've seen some TV shows
where actors spoke quickly and mumbled quite a bit in their rolls as
detectives.  I could not understand them.  And they were native speakers.



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>From: "Steinbacher, Mikal" <msteinbacher at cascadia.ctc.edu>

>Reply-To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion

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>Not usually, but those who do not communicate with non-native speakers

>often are.  Isn't good communication what we are after?

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>Y? were u confused?

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>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!

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>From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Muro, Andres

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>Appreciate any ideas (feasible) about changing the world.

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>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.

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>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.

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>Andres

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