IATEFL Webinar: Four principles for accent-friendly pronunciation teaching

Intelligibility does not depend on having a standard accent. In this presentation, I will suggest that it is possible to teach pronunciation in a way which is more flexible and accepting of different accents. The presentation will present practical teaching ideas, while at the same time introducing four principles for accent-friendly pronunciation teaching:
1 ‘Effective’ beats ‘correct’
2 If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it
3 Make the difference you need
4 Speak locally, hear globally
For more details about this accent-friendly approach to teaching pronunciation, see Section A of PronPack: The Minimal Pair Collection, and see also my article How to Focus on Phonemes(link is external). You can download the slides below.