Accentuate the positive - 0 views
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Jenni Young on 04 Nov 13If you want to help the white working class, try tackling your own prejudices about accents (Guardian opinion column)
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Speaking proper: does it matter if we can't pronounce mispronunciation? | Science | The... - 0 views
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Steven Poole: Do you say 'expresso' or 'nucular'? Have you ever been confident about how you say bruschetta? Don't worry about it - arguments over pronunciation are mostly proxies for snobbery and class (Guardian.com)
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Steven Poole: Do you say 'expresso' or 'nucular'? Have you ever been confident about how you say bruschetta? Don't worry about it - arguments over pronunciation are mostly proxies for snobbery and class (Guardian.com)
Barack Obama: A Master Class in Public Speaking [Video] - 0 views
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from Forbes.com
Search for My Tongue - Sujata Bhatt - 0 views
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BBC Class Clips
What are you saying cuz? - 0 views
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No idea what cuzzies, sweet as, wop-wops or wuss mean? Kiwi slang classes at Wellington Central library have been helping migrants tackle these kinds of words, without being too hard out.
Vietname experiments with bilingual education - 0 views
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Bilingual classes for Vietnam's minority language speakers. From NYT.
Language and Gender - 1 views
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A lecturer's handout from UChicago
Body Language - Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid' - 0 views
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A discussion of Ursula's song 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' from a scene in 'The Little Mermaid'
The naked truth: Hollywood still treats its women as second class citizens - 1 views
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Research shows female stars are paid less, have fewer lines and spend more time with their clothes off than men
Kidspoem/Bairnsang by Liz Lochhead (BBC Class Clip) - 0 views
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Liz Lochead reads her poem 'Kidspoem' or 'Bairnsang' - a poem written in both Scottish and English dialect.
Is Britain becoming a nation of accent snobs? - 0 views
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Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? - 0 views
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Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
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Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
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