Since"it is impossible to speak English without an accent"(Wardhaugh 1998: 43), English accent has been attached first importance to both native and non-native speakers. This study aims to explore teenagers&...Since"it is impossible to speak English without an accent"(Wardhaugh 1998: 43), English accent has been attached first importance to both native and non-native speakers. This study aims to explore teenagers' understanding and attitudes toward differing English accents by investigating 19 international high school students' preferences toward five English audio samples(the same materials with different accents) in Chingmai International School, Thailand. On the basis of five audio samples and respondents' self-reported answers, the results show that British English, instead of"powerful"American English, emerges as the preferred accent. The results also indicate that the need to understand both accented and non-accented English is required for EFLs. Finally, teaching implications concerning pronunciation teaching in EFL classrooms are also put forward.展开更多
The Silent Way is a language teaching method in which the teacher remains silent much of the time allowing the students to cognitively "work out" the new language. This paper is an attempt to apply SW to Eng...The Silent Way is a language teaching method in which the teacher remains silent much of the time allowing the students to cognitively "work out" the new language. This paper is an attempt to apply SW to English teaching. Meanwhile, it also evaluates the silent way in terms of its characteristics and criticism from the view of language learning theories.展开更多
文摘Since"it is impossible to speak English without an accent"(Wardhaugh 1998: 43), English accent has been attached first importance to both native and non-native speakers. This study aims to explore teenagers' understanding and attitudes toward differing English accents by investigating 19 international high school students' preferences toward five English audio samples(the same materials with different accents) in Chingmai International School, Thailand. On the basis of five audio samples and respondents' self-reported answers, the results show that British English, instead of"powerful"American English, emerges as the preferred accent. The results also indicate that the need to understand both accented and non-accented English is required for EFLs. Finally, teaching implications concerning pronunciation teaching in EFL classrooms are also put forward.
文摘The Silent Way is a language teaching method in which the teacher remains silent much of the time allowing the students to cognitively "work out" the new language. This paper is an attempt to apply SW to English teaching. Meanwhile, it also evaluates the silent way in terms of its characteristics and criticism from the view of language learning theories.
