Blog posts in April 2018

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What accent do students think they want?

Saturday - April 14th, 2018
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Mark Hancock
What accent do students think they want? - hancockmcdonald.com/node/563/edit

Here's Gemma Archer at IATEFL Brighton (on the PronSIG day) explaining how she felt when, starting her teaching career, she was expected to teach pronunciation in a posh English accent. She was teaching in a Scottish environment and has a Scottish accent, so teaching RP just didn't make any sense. So she gave up on pronunciation altogether.

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