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Language in the News - E1

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How to Change the Accent of a Traini Teacher

Alex bratum, alex bratum from manchester university did some research with, he talked to student teachers. And it was interesting m how quite a percentagve of traini teachers were told to modify their accents. One one that stood out particularly fo me was e, a student teacher from the middleo ans who was told by a mentar e if she couldn't adopt a southern accen accent then it would be better er that she went back to where she came from. Em and i think en in a situation like that, em it needs to be called out. It needs to be challenged. I think when you start to kind of pick away people a mean accent,

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