--- Forwarded Message from "Emma Fernandez" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:42:00 -0500 >From: "Emma Fernandez" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "LLTI List address" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: One accent or multiples accents? Recently, I started to use the audiovisual materials that come with the book "Hola Amigos" in order to help my students to develop Spanish oral comprehension skills. However, I was very disappointed when I found out that the people intervening in the video were coming from different countries and, consequently, had very different accents. I had problems to understand some of the individuals myself. I learned English in England and Ireland and I have to recognize that I had difficulties to understand English spoken in other countries. I still have difficulties to understand English with australian or scottish accent, however, after my first month in United States, I got used to american accent. My question: Is it useful to show students all different accents of one same language when starting to learn that language or different accents make learning a more difficult task? Regards, Emma Fern$E1ndez *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************