I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!
Watch the webinar here. In this free webinar, I’m talking about accent in ELT: what we need to know and why. I will also show how we can help learners to understand accent variation in a practical, classroom-friendly way.
Accent for Listeners (AFL) focuses on helping learners to develop the flexibility to deal with accent variation: English is a global language, and naturally, there is a huge variety in the way it i
Annie has worked in ELT with great passion for the last 40 years, but her teaching career began even before that, in her home town of Liverpool. She qualified there as a teacher in 1976 and went on to teach history in secondary schools.
In this presentation, we will look at the need to talk about accent, both for the benefit of our learners, and for our own professional development.
1. For learners, accent awareness is relevant for both speaking and listening:
"PronPack: The Minimal Pair Collection" - this new book takes an accent-friendly approach to teaching the segmentals of English pronunciation. You can download some free sample material from the book in the PDF below.
