[etni] Fw: re: Spik dis vay to Izraeleez, says study

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:56:37 +0200
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From: "Marlene" <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Spik dis vay to Izraeleez, says study


My choir teacher was teaching the choir to pronounce th.
She did not want to hear Israeli accents ruining
the correct diction of songs. She claims it's doable,
and is merely a question of conscious application.
That is, nce you've learned how to pronounce the
sound, you have to be aware and not give in to lazy
habitual ways f pronouncing In class, if there's a
particularly difficult to pronounce word, I try to
get the students to pronounce it out loud.
Another problem with native speaker English is
slang, slurring words (assimilation). When teaching
the future (be + going to) - I mention gonna as
the normal term used in everyday speech.

BTW, years ago, while teaching at college, we had
to read aloud the listening comprehension texts
to the students. My students had no problem
with my clearly pronounced (American) English
text. But the other group's teacher had a heavily
accented Russian accent, poor things...
Parents teaching infants to speak often copy their
cute first attempts. But they need to be exposed
to real language in order to learn to speak.
However, initially, speaking very slowly and
precisely, emphasizing the important points
in a kind of singsong manner - does help in
first language acquisition.
Marlene


> Spik dis vay to Izraeleez, says study
> Haaretz - Feb. 19, 2010
> English teachers who are native speakers of that language may wish to
> consider faking an Israeli accent to help out their pupils, according to
> the > results of a surprising new study by linguists from the University 
> of
> Haifa.
> That's because the research Raphiq Ibrahim and Mark Leikin showed that
> perception of second language speech is easier when spoken in the accent
> of the listener and not in its original accent. The study, recently 
> published
> in the prestigious Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, questions the
> insistence by many teachers and schools which teach English as a second
> language, on exposing their students to the languages in their 'original'
> accents.
> (To read the whole article, go to -
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150954.html  )


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