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riyadh1974
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 Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:31 pm Post subject: Headway - English in a foreign accent |
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As much as I like the Headway series, I find it really annoying that for a large number of the dialogues non-native English speakers are used! Isn't the point to get students used to British accents? It's like using non-native Arabs, with bad English accents, to read the dialogues in an Arabic language for foreigners text book!
Mr and Mrs Soars, sort it out! |
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2buckets
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Diversity culture.
Will be the end of Western Culture. |
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hieroglyphs
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| Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| It seems likely that most of the people who learn English as a second language will more often speak the language to a non-native speaker. Given that, I think it makes sense to expose students to non-native accents. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:46 am Post subject: Re: Headway - English in a foreign accent |
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| riyadh1974 wrote: |
| As much as I like the Headway series, |
Ugh... I hated the Headway series...  Though I hear that they finally developed a Middle East version that wasn't such a cultural nightmare...
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2buckets
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:23 am Post subject: |
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cultural nightmare...
Right.
It seemed like student life in the UK was partying, pubbing and drinking. |
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veiledsentiments
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... arranging dates... picking up women... ordering wine... 
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PattyFlipper
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:53 am Post subject: |
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A picture of a huge bottle of booze or a plate of ham sandwiches on every other page, not to mention articles about holidays in Israel.  |
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It's Scary!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| hieroglyphs wrote: |
| It seems likely that most of the people who learn English as a second language will more often speak the language to a non-native speaker. Given that, I think it makes sense to expose students to non-native accents. |
...and all the mispronunciation, faulty stresses and farcical grammar "rules" that go with it!
It's a constant linguistic/phonological battle with "their" former students! |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I care less about the accents in the recordings than about how fake, stilted, and uncontextualised the discourse in them is. I've never heard a good one, honestly. |
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