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		<title>Accents: Native or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Ultimate Attainment is back again. He&#8217;s someone we&#8217;re talking about a lot in my seminars lately and unfortunately, certain people do believe the falsehoods about sounding like &#8220;native&#8221; being the ultimate. It&#8217;s also a fundamental aspect of my dissertation (specifically dealing with English in Korea).. but that&#8217;s another story.
When it comes to accentual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accent Training for the Teacher?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many that are involved in language &#8211; teachers and learners both - are hung up on the pronunciation aspects of things. Most of these people focus on the learner and how to improve their accent in their target language, and this is something that a lot of people are interested in. It&#8217;s the old ultimate attainment argument. Everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Pronunciation?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure as language teachers that this thought goes through our head a fair bit. It&#8217;s not a difficult decision for most languages since there is the standard. And yes, while there are varying dialects and accents, there is typically the one golden standard that we can revert to. Let our students fall back on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pronunciation Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the aims in the classroom when we teach pronunciation? Or more importantly, what should the aims be?

Many a school policy is designed to teach the &#8220;native&#8221; model of pronunciation, but is this a realistic notion? Not only does research suggest that the so-called &#8220;native&#8221; models of English are amongst the least intelligible but [...]]]></description>
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