Accent a Difficulty? What is the Educators role? by Daniel Reilly Pieretti https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty #1:Under what conditions should ENL/EFL teachers treat a ENL/EFL student’s pronunciation as a “difficulty?” #2...As an ENL/EFL teacher, is it ethical to not encourage &/or not help students and teach them how to acquire and speak with a “standard” Accent? en-us 2021-04-17 21:54:03 UTC 2021-04-21 22:53:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Question 1 https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444798999 I think if there's no understanding at all between the teacher and student. However, if you can't understand a few words, then you can go another way with communicating. I ask my students to spell out the word or give me an example and eventually we get to the same page. ]]> 2021-04-21 22:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444798999 dmateo1 https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444799024 I don't believe  teachers under any circumstances should consider a student's pronunciation as a difficulty. We as educators must meet the needs of our students regardless of their accent.]]> 2021-04-21 22:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444799024 1. It all depen https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444800701 2021-04-21 22:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444800701 Brikena https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444800717 I don’t believe too that teachers or anyone else consider the accent as a difficulty. accent is a individual feature  ]]> 2021-04-21 22:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444800717 nkamar https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444801878 I can't think of a circumstance where it would be appropriate to treat a student's pronunciation as a difficulty. 
Additionally, I'm not sure many educators actually take teaching accents into account.]]> 2021-04-21 22:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444801878 https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444802735 We should encourage students to communicate. However, we should not be the cause of their anxiety and insecurities with accents. No matter what, accents will be treated differently because of the system. As teachers, I don't think we should pick on them for their accents. ]]> 2021-04-21 22:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444802735 It all depends, on the student's pronuciation is correct, but with an accent. https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444803734 2021-04-21 22:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444803734 Student should be taught the conventions of the Standard English Language. Accent adds uniqueness to the speech of the students. -Asana Hamidu https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444804950 2021-04-21 22:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444804950 1. This is a good question. I suppose that if student and teacher can't communicate during conferencing, they should find a way to make language accessible. hamaya https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444805226 2.It is never ethical to mess with the way students communicate.]]> 2021-04-21 22:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444805226 https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444807540 It is definitely not a difficulty. As for the second question, that is such a tricky question. We should focus more so on providing the tools to access the language they are acquiring. We should not encourage the erasure of culture, identity or native dialect.
-Margaret A.]]> 2021-04-21 22:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/drp9341/is_Accent_a_Difficulty/wish/1444807540