"I strongly believe we need to be (re)creating a climate of knowledge building in the EAP classroom." Steve Kirk
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Teacher Education for Languages with Technology / Formation des enseignants de langue avec les TICE
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Shona Whyte: Take a minute to hear William Labov on language change in the US. Literally a minute, part of the University of Pennsylvania's 60 second lecture challenge by different speakers on different topics (https://www.sas.upenn.edu/60second/)
Here more from this major figure in modern sociolinguistics in an NPR interview http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5220090&sc=emaf
and the atlas of North American English can be accessed here http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html
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August 14, 2012 9:04 AM
"Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat at this computer? The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society’ s continuity and change, our local history and our day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century."
Shona Whyte: Useful for teachers wishing to demonstrate the variety of British accents and dialects, or for language students to broaden their English language experience. LInguistics students can also find information on language change, phonology, and dialect studies. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte:
483 accents of English - audio files for the same text, male and female speakers from a variety of English-speaking countries plus non-natives.
Great for phonetics/phonology practice, or just demonstrating phonological variation to dispel the myth that there's one "standard" pronunciation. Delete the scoop?
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Steve Kirk argues that in language for academic purposes classes, fluency activities where learners "just speak" are insufficient: learners also need to learn to develop "contentful" contributions.
I think a) this is also true of other second/foreign language teaching contexts and b) a strong version of task-based teaching can help address this concern.