"Accented English" is a redundant term as all English is accented. But if it's code for "nonwhite English," for example, then "accented" is a racializing term.

GRAMMAR ✔️arrive 𝗮𝘁 You arrive 𝗮𝘁 airports, hotels, schools, hospitals, houses, lakes, and so on. • We arrived 𝗮𝘁 the hotel. ✔️arrive 𝗶𝗻 You arrive 𝗶𝗻 continents, regions, countries, cities, and towns. • We arrived 𝗶𝗻 Paris. #LearnEnglish #EFL #TEFL

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(the racist trolls are starting to come out of the woodwork, guess that means it's spreading)

Can you help this student with his survey?

Very cool.

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Pronunciation teaching should not be about homogenizing student voices. Rather, it should be about helping students *find their own ways* to achieve intelligibility.

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This is why it is so hard to find boxed curriculum for language acquisition. Everyone’s journey is different and their needs are all their own.

“Language is never neutral.” - Paulo Freire What do you think this quotation means? Do you agree with Freire? #paulofreire #language

¡Qué bien traído!

Contexts where it is actually important to have the ‘right’ accent. A thread 🧵 1. Acting (sometimes)

𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍'𝖘 𝕲𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖆 𝕻𝖎𝖌 𝟒.𝟐 Jessamyn Neuhaus Ron Coleman OpenAI If you’re going to be publicly pedantic, at least know what you’re talking about. There is no participle in the original tweet.

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