[etni] Spik dis vay to Izraeleez, says study
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- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:30:55 +0200
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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