[etni] Re: Fwd: Re: Standard English
- From: Michele Ben <mggben@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:57:52 +0200
My appalling accent in Hebrew did not keep me out of the elementary school
classroom as a special ed teacher (Morah Tipulit, Morah Mitakent BeKriah,
Morah MiShalevet - depending on the latest fad) for almost twenty years,
before I retrained as an English teacher for reasons that are not relevant
to this thread. Most of my time was spent as a remedial reading teacher in
HEBREW. I did pay close attention to my pronunciation when I was working on
phonics, phonetics etc and when I was reading stories aloud to the kids.
But otherwise, my accent came thorough loud and clear as it still does.
And here's a funny story related to that: I had one second grade pupil who
suddenly started speaking Hebrew with an American accent. His mother, who
related the story to me, asked him what was going on. He told her that he
was "speaking English" just like me!
Michele
Subject: Re: Standard English
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'd also like to relate to this topic. (See Marlene's words
> below.)Years ago, before I started teaching English, I'd wanted to be
> a kindergarten teacher like my Mom. Even though I'd been studying in
> Hebrew, Machon Greenberg, a program for "teaching Hebrew in the
> Diaspora", and I was willing to continue my Hebrew and other studies
> here, the Ministry heard my accent loud and clear, decided I was "too
> foreign" and steered me right away from my plan into teaching English.
>
> And here I am still on the job 40+ years later!
>
> Laurie
>
> > From personal experience, it is not ok to have an "appalling Anglo
> > accent" in Hebrew if you want to teach Ulpan in Israel, despite having
> > excellent pedagogical skills and linguistic knowledge. Ditto for quite
> > a number of acting positions in Hebrew.
>
>
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