Prejudice in ELT?
Canguro English has called out a Youtube ELTer - English With Lucy about a video she posted regarding kinds of pronunciation to avoid. Do you agree? See Lucy's reply HERE.
Canguro English has called out a Youtube ELTer - English With Lucy about a video she posted regarding kinds of pronunciation to avoid. Do you agree? See Lucy's reply HERE.
What teachers and trained professionals are critical of – is her belief that RP (Received Pronunciation) is the “right” accent and one learners should practice and aspire to. Blatantly wrong and out of date. You can’t “sound” educated. That is just garbage and so wrong in the world we live in today.
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BRENDA CERVANTES
As I look at the comments from non-native speakers, I see that they are not offended at all. They see her efforts as good and helpful for their language learning. In the videos that I saw, she seemed very humble as she mentioned words that she used to pronounce wrong, too. I guess I didn’t see the one that told the learners that they would sound uneducated if they didn’t pronounce just as she did.