{"id":5557,"date":"2015-11-02T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T10:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2015-11-02T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T10:50:31","slug":"webinar-the-ear-of-the-beholder-helping-learners-understand-different-accents-november-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: \u2018The ear of the beholder&#8217;: helping learners understand different accents, November 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Laura is ELT research manager at Cambridge University Press, and a former teacher\/teacher trainer with\u00a0a BA in Linguistics and an\u00a0MA in ELT &amp; Applied Linguistics. \u00a0She is particularly interested in the use of English as a lingua franca, teaching pronunciation and investigating the practical applications of linguistic research. <!--more-->\u00a0She is editor of<a href=\"http:\/\/pronsig.iatefl.org\/Newsletter.html\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Speak Out!<\/i><\/span><\/a>, the newsletter of the IATEFL <a href=\"http:\/\/pronsig.iatefl.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">PronSIG<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">She blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/laurapatsko.wordpress.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">laurapatsko.wordpress.com<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/elfpron.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/elfpron.wordpress.com<\/a>, and\u00a0tweets as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauraahaha\"><span class=\"s2\">@lauraahaha<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauraahaha\">.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgeenglishteacher.org\/eventdetail\/2083\/the-beholder039-helping-learners-understand-different-accents\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more information<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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. 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