<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>So are they learning the target language, or are they just learning to be dependent on a familiar accent? I mean, does it really count as learning the language if you're not learning to understand native speakers?</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeremy Graves</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lp <lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 18, 2010 5:38:52 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [lg policy] Teaching a Foreign Language? Best in the Accent of the Listener<br></font><br>
Forwarded From: <a ymailto="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu" href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a><br><br><br>Newswise<br><br><br><br>Teaching a Foreign Language? Best in the Accent of the Listener<br><br><br><br>Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in<br>the accent of the listener and not in the 'original' accent of that<br>language, shows a new study from the University of Haifa. The study<br>was published in the prestigious Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.<br><br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/teaching-a-foreign-language-is-best-in-the-accent-of-the-listener">http://www.newswise.com/articles/teaching-a-foreign-language-is-best-in-the-accent-of-the-listener</a></span><br><br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to<br>its
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