Author: Alene Moyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005817
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is foreign accent inevitably associated with social stigma? In this fascinating account, Alene Moyer examines the social, psychological, educational and legal ramifications of sounding 'foreign'.
Foreign Accent
Author: Alene Moyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005817
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is foreign accent inevitably associated with social stigma? In this fascinating account, Alene Moyer examines the social, psychological, educational and legal ramifications of sounding 'foreign'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005817
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is foreign accent inevitably associated with social stigma? In this fascinating account, Alene Moyer examines the social, psychological, educational and legal ramifications of sounding 'foreign'.
Basic Communication Skills In English
Author: Ainaab Tariq
Publisher: Academic Guru Publishing House
ISBN: 8196918437
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book has been created to simplify the process of learning English to improve one's ability to communicate effectively. A sensitivity to the substance, style, and presentation of the message, as well as respect for the norms of the language (grammar), are required for effective communication. Due to this, individuals need to have a solid understanding of all aspects of using appropriate language to improve their capacity to communicate effectively. A student of the English language can enhance the effectiveness of their expressions by reading this book, which contains lessons on grammar & communication skills abilities. The appropriate chapters of grammar have been produced and presented using examples that are appropriate for the topic. A systematic explanation of grammatical forms and how they are used in standard British English today is presented in this book. The significance of the meanings and the manner in which they influence the selection of grammatical patterns is emphasized. This book is not only comprehensive in its content, but it also pays attention to the issues that are important to English language learners who are already at an intermediate or advanced level, as well as to the instructors of such students. Not only would it be good for the more gradual study of grammatical issues, but it would also be ideal for rapid reference to those aspects. To demonstrate how grammar is used in linked writing and speech, the book includes several examples of text and conversations, most of which are real. This is a feature that is both helpful and informative.
Publisher: Academic Guru Publishing House
ISBN: 8196918437
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book has been created to simplify the process of learning English to improve one's ability to communicate effectively. A sensitivity to the substance, style, and presentation of the message, as well as respect for the norms of the language (grammar), are required for effective communication. Due to this, individuals need to have a solid understanding of all aspects of using appropriate language to improve their capacity to communicate effectively. A student of the English language can enhance the effectiveness of their expressions by reading this book, which contains lessons on grammar & communication skills abilities. The appropriate chapters of grammar have been produced and presented using examples that are appropriate for the topic. A systematic explanation of grammatical forms and how they are used in standard British English today is presented in this book. The significance of the meanings and the manner in which they influence the selection of grammatical patterns is emphasized. This book is not only comprehensive in its content, but it also pays attention to the issues that are important to English language learners who are already at an intermediate or advanced level, as well as to the instructors of such students. Not only would it be good for the more gradual study of grammatical issues, but it would also be ideal for rapid reference to those aspects. To demonstrate how grammar is used in linked writing and speech, the book includes several examples of text and conversations, most of which are real. This is a feature that is both helpful and informative.
Here's How to Do Accent Modification
Author: Robert McKinney
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1635500087
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Here's How to Do Accent Modification: A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists is designed for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with clients on accent modification in American English. A growing number of non-native speakers are interested in improving their communication skills and SLPs need preparation to work with this clientele. The text provides copious advice and many diverse techniques for teaching accent modification, from the level of basic sounds to the level of discourse. The text emphasizes realistic goal setting, so that clients focus on becoming effective communicators as opposed to sounding exactly like native speakers. The objective is a balance between clear and natural speech. Many SLPs favor intelligibility over naturalness because of their backgrounds working with speech delayed children, but with non-native speakers this often leads to unnatural speech and listeners focus on how something is said as opposed to what is said. Here's How to Do Accent Modification is uniquely geared toward the skills and backgrounds of SLPs working with clients in a one-on-one setting, but is also an excellent introductory text for any English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher. Robert McKinney brings this unique perspective as a speech-language pathologist with degrees in both Communication Disorders and Teaching English as a Second Language. Also included with the text are numerous practical activities and worksheets for working with clients. The ebook includes audio files and video clips to demonstrate working with non-native speakers.
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1635500087
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Here's How to Do Accent Modification: A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists is designed for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with clients on accent modification in American English. A growing number of non-native speakers are interested in improving their communication skills and SLPs need preparation to work with this clientele. The text provides copious advice and many diverse techniques for teaching accent modification, from the level of basic sounds to the level of discourse. The text emphasizes realistic goal setting, so that clients focus on becoming effective communicators as opposed to sounding exactly like native speakers. The objective is a balance between clear and natural speech. Many SLPs favor intelligibility over naturalness because of their backgrounds working with speech delayed children, but with non-native speakers this often leads to unnatural speech and listeners focus on how something is said as opposed to what is said. Here's How to Do Accent Modification is uniquely geared toward the skills and backgrounds of SLPs working with clients in a one-on-one setting, but is also an excellent introductory text for any English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher. Robert McKinney brings this unique perspective as a speech-language pathologist with degrees in both Communication Disorders and Teaching English as a Second Language. Also included with the text are numerous practical activities and worksheets for working with clients. The ebook includes audio files and video clips to demonstrate working with non-native speakers.
Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork® Guide for Acting in Accent
Author: Philip Thompson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000993736
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork® Guide for Acting in Accent presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to accent acquisition for actors. It lays out an accessible and effective set of tools, exercises, and theoretical frameworks grounded in current linguistic science, as well as more than two decades of teaching, actor training, and coaching developed by Knight-Thompson Speechwork®. This book dismantles the notions that accents exist on a spectrum of good and bad or that "neutral," "general," or "standard" can serve as ideals for speech. By de-centering elitist and authoritarian worldviews, it gives actors a path to mobilize their innate language abilities to acquire any accent, relying on descriptive and experiential knowledge. The innovative approach of the Four Ps – People, Prosody, Posture, and Pronunciation – builds cultural competence that honors accents as they exist in the world, increases the physical and perceptive skills of the actor, and provides a rich variety of applications to encourage fluid and embodied accent performance. Each of the Four Ps are investigated and practiced separately and then synthesized in the art of the performer, allowing actors to address the complexity of acting in accent through a deliberate and sequential layering of skills, rendering the final expression of their technique meticulously accurate and deeply authentic. Organized into fifteen modules to correspond with a typical semester, Experiencing Accents is perfect for Theatre students in voice, speech, and accents courses, along with working actors interested in improving their accent work.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000993736
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork® Guide for Acting in Accent presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to accent acquisition for actors. It lays out an accessible and effective set of tools, exercises, and theoretical frameworks grounded in current linguistic science, as well as more than two decades of teaching, actor training, and coaching developed by Knight-Thompson Speechwork®. This book dismantles the notions that accents exist on a spectrum of good and bad or that "neutral," "general," or "standard" can serve as ideals for speech. By de-centering elitist and authoritarian worldviews, it gives actors a path to mobilize their innate language abilities to acquire any accent, relying on descriptive and experiential knowledge. The innovative approach of the Four Ps – People, Prosody, Posture, and Pronunciation – builds cultural competence that honors accents as they exist in the world, increases the physical and perceptive skills of the actor, and provides a rich variety of applications to encourage fluid and embodied accent performance. Each of the Four Ps are investigated and practiced separately and then synthesized in the art of the performer, allowing actors to address the complexity of acting in accent through a deliberate and sequential layering of skills, rendering the final expression of their technique meticulously accurate and deeply authentic. Organized into fifteen modules to correspond with a typical semester, Experiencing Accents is perfect for Theatre students in voice, speech, and accents courses, along with working actors interested in improving their accent work.
English with an Accent
Author: Rusty Barrett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100077449X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1997, English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization, social structures, and power. This new edition is an attempt to retain the spirit of the original while enriching and expanding it to reflect the greater understanding of linguistic discrimination that it has helped create. This third edition has been substantially reworked to include: An updated concept of social categories, how they are constructed in interaction, and how they can be invoked and perceived through linguistic cues or language ideologies Refreshed accounts of the countless social and structural factors that go into linguistic discrimination Expanded attention to specific linguistic structures, language groups, and social domains that go beyond those provided in earlier editions New dedicated chapter on American Sign Language and its history of discrimination QR codes linking to external media, stories, and other forms of engagement beyond the text A revamped website with additional material English with an Accent remains a book that forces us to acknowledge and understand the ways language is used as an excuse for discrimination. The book will help readers to better understand issues of cross-cultural communication, to develop strategies for successful interactions across social difference, to recognize patterns of language that reflect implicit bias, and to gain awareness of how mistaken beliefs about language create and nurture prejudice and discrimination.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100077449X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1997, English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization, social structures, and power. This new edition is an attempt to retain the spirit of the original while enriching and expanding it to reflect the greater understanding of linguistic discrimination that it has helped create. This third edition has been substantially reworked to include: An updated concept of social categories, how they are constructed in interaction, and how they can be invoked and perceived through linguistic cues or language ideologies Refreshed accounts of the countless social and structural factors that go into linguistic discrimination Expanded attention to specific linguistic structures, language groups, and social domains that go beyond those provided in earlier editions New dedicated chapter on American Sign Language and its history of discrimination QR codes linking to external media, stories, and other forms of engagement beyond the text A revamped website with additional material English with an Accent remains a book that forces us to acknowledge and understand the ways language is used as an excuse for discrimination. The book will help readers to better understand issues of cross-cultural communication, to develop strategies for successful interactions across social difference, to recognize patterns of language that reflect implicit bias, and to gain awareness of how mistaken beliefs about language create and nurture prejudice and discrimination.
Thinking with an Accent
Author: Pooja Rangan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent—to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent—to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.
Language beyond Words: The Neuroscience of Accent
Author: Ignacio Moreno-Torres
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889451070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Language learning also implies the acquisition of a set of phonetic rules and prosodic contours which define the accent in that language. While often considered as merely accessory, accent is an essential component of psychological identity as it embodies information on origin, culture, and social class. Speaking with a non-standard (foreign) accent is not inconsequential because it may negatively impact communication and social adjustment. Nevertheless, the lack of a formal definition of accent may explain that, as compared with other aspects of language, it has received relatively little attention until recently. During the past decade there has been increasing interest in the analysis of accent from a neuroscientific perspective. This e-book integrates data from different scientific frameworks. The reader will find fruitful research on new models of accent processing, how learning a new accent proceeds, and the role of feedback on accent learning in healthy subjects. In addition, information on accent changes in pathological conditions including developmental and psychogenic foreign accent syndromes as well as the description of a new variant of foreign accent syndrome is also included. It is anticipated that the articles in this e-book will enhance the understanding of accent as a linguistic phenomenon, the neural networks supporting it and potential interventions to accelerate acquisition or relearning of native accents.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889451070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Language learning also implies the acquisition of a set of phonetic rules and prosodic contours which define the accent in that language. While often considered as merely accessory, accent is an essential component of psychological identity as it embodies information on origin, culture, and social class. Speaking with a non-standard (foreign) accent is not inconsequential because it may negatively impact communication and social adjustment. Nevertheless, the lack of a formal definition of accent may explain that, as compared with other aspects of language, it has received relatively little attention until recently. During the past decade there has been increasing interest in the analysis of accent from a neuroscientific perspective. This e-book integrates data from different scientific frameworks. The reader will find fruitful research on new models of accent processing, how learning a new accent proceeds, and the role of feedback on accent learning in healthy subjects. In addition, information on accent changes in pathological conditions including developmental and psychogenic foreign accent syndromes as well as the description of a new variant of foreign accent syndrome is also included. It is anticipated that the articles in this e-book will enhance the understanding of accent as a linguistic phenomenon, the neural networks supporting it and potential interventions to accelerate acquisition or relearning of native accents.
Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers
Author: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642240194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642240194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Alene Moyer
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788920465
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788920465
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.
Foreign Accent Management
Author: Mythri S. Menon
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597568368
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597568368
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description