[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
The use of English as an international lingua franca means learners will be exposed to a wide variety of accents, both native and non-native. How can teachers prepare them to cope with such diversity? This workshop features practical tasks, informed by relevant theory, which participants could try out in their own classrooms.
Laura is ELT research manager at Cambridge University Press, and a former teacher/teacher trainer with a BA in Linguistics and an MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics. She is particularly interested in the use of English as a lingua franca, teaching pronunciation and investigating the practical applications of linguistic research. She is editor ofSpeak Out!, the newsletter of the IATEFL PronSIG.
She blogs at laurapatsko.wordpress.com and http://elfpron.wordpress.com, and tweets as @lauraahaha.
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