Collins in partnership with British Council presents 'The Politics of Pronunciation' a talk by Helen Ashton at British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6pm to 8pm on 2nd April 2014
Time : 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Entry : If you are interested in attending this event, please write to Mr DhrubaJyoti Malkhandi at DhrubaJyoti.Malkhandi@britishcouncil.org
Place : British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Barakhamba(Blue Line)'
Event Description : Collins in partnership with British Council India invites you to a talk on 'The Politics of Pronunciation' by Helen Ashton.
Traditional approaches to teaching English pronunciation are based on 'Received Pronunciation'. This is often presented as being the ‘standard’ or ‘correct’ form of spoken English. But the linguistic landscape is continually changing - even Received Pronunciation as a speech system is changing. What was considered ’standard’ 30 years ago now sounds ‘old fashioned’. In UK, Received Pronunciation is no longer held up as being the only ‘correct’ way to speak English. What does this mean for English Pronunciation teaching in an international context? Can we still speak about ‘standard’ accents in the era of Globish? Dialect coach, Helen Ashton believes that accents reflect our identities, and no one way of speaking is inherently better than another. However, this doesn’t mean that pronunciation teaching should be abandoned altogether. There is a middle ground: there is a difference between training people to talk like Received Pronunciation drones, and helping them to speak in a way that is expressive and clear to anyone listening. Although individual accents should be respected, there comes a point where pronunciation habits can be a limitation to fluency.
In this presentation, Helen will argue that pronunciation teaching should be flexible, and tailored to students’ individual goals. She will include examples from the Indian context and consider one of the key issues here that gets teachers arguing: should our children be taught English models of pronunciation or is it acceptable in this global world - for them to speak with Indian accents? She will also present key skills and concepts that are useful for teaching different pronunciation models.
There is space for both sensitivity and rigour within pronunciation teaching in India, and without either one of them, we are letting our students down.
Related Events : Talks
Entry : If you are interested in attending this event, please write to Mr DhrubaJyoti Malkhandi at DhrubaJyoti.Malkhandi@britishcouncil.org
Place : British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Barakhamba(Blue Line)'
Event Description : Collins in partnership with British Council India invites you to a talk on 'The Politics of Pronunciation' by Helen Ashton.
Traditional approaches to teaching English pronunciation are based on 'Received Pronunciation'. This is often presented as being the ‘standard’ or ‘correct’ form of spoken English. But the linguistic landscape is continually changing - even Received Pronunciation as a speech system is changing. What was considered ’standard’ 30 years ago now sounds ‘old fashioned’. In UK, Received Pronunciation is no longer held up as being the only ‘correct’ way to speak English. What does this mean for English Pronunciation teaching in an international context? Can we still speak about ‘standard’ accents in the era of Globish? Dialect coach, Helen Ashton believes that accents reflect our identities, and no one way of speaking is inherently better than another. However, this doesn’t mean that pronunciation teaching should be abandoned altogether. There is a middle ground: there is a difference between training people to talk like Received Pronunciation drones, and helping them to speak in a way that is expressive and clear to anyone listening. Although individual accents should be respected, there comes a point where pronunciation habits can be a limitation to fluency.
In this presentation, Helen will argue that pronunciation teaching should be flexible, and tailored to students’ individual goals. She will include examples from the Indian context and consider one of the key issues here that gets teachers arguing: should our children be taught English models of pronunciation or is it acceptable in this global world - for them to speak with Indian accents? She will also present key skills and concepts that are useful for teaching different pronunciation models.
There is space for both sensitivity and rigour within pronunciation teaching in India, and without either one of them, we are letting our students down.
Related Events : Talks
Collins in partnership with British Council presents 'The Politics of Pronunciation' a talk by Helen Ashton at British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6pm to 8pm on 2nd April 2014
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