The different English accents
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:28 pm
Hi All
I'm new to the boards and haven't yet had a good look around so forgive me if this has been answered in the past.
How do you go about addressing concerns about the different english accents?
My new group of students (Southern Germany - medical tech sector) have all identified their biggest issue as understanding what people from the UK/US/Australia/India/China/Singapore are saying when they have to deal with them.
I know accent comprehension is largely a matter of exposure, but they're all exposed to a multitude of different accents depending on their jobs and departments, and they ALL want help in learning how to understand the people they're dealing with.
I'm working on reported speech right now and would like to incorporate a bit of 'accent work' in the lessons from this point on. I'm just not too sure how best to approach it.
We have a 15 week semester. I'd like to be able to offer something more concrete than 'listen and guess what is being said' lessons.
if anyone out there has had some success with this topic I'd be very grateful to hear what you've done.
Thanks in advance
jim
I'm new to the boards and haven't yet had a good look around so forgive me if this has been answered in the past.
How do you go about addressing concerns about the different english accents?
My new group of students (Southern Germany - medical tech sector) have all identified their biggest issue as understanding what people from the UK/US/Australia/India/China/Singapore are saying when they have to deal with them.
I know accent comprehension is largely a matter of exposure, but they're all exposed to a multitude of different accents depending on their jobs and departments, and they ALL want help in learning how to understand the people they're dealing with.
I'm working on reported speech right now and would like to incorporate a bit of 'accent work' in the lessons from this point on. I'm just not too sure how best to approach it.
We have a 15 week semester. I'd like to be able to offer something more concrete than 'listen and guess what is being said' lessons.
if anyone out there has had some success with this topic I'd be very grateful to hear what you've done.
Thanks in advance
jim