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    Overcoming Accent as a

    barrier to Communication
    What is Accent?
    • Accents falls under the disciple of
    sociolinguistics
    • An accent is a manner
    of pronunciation peculiar to a particular
    individual, location, or nation.
    • An accent may be identified with the
    locality in which its speakers reside (a
    regional or geographical accent),
    their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their social
    class (a social accent), or influence from
    their first language (a foreign accent).
    • Accents typically differ in quality of voice,
    pronunciation and distinction of vowels
    and consonants, stress, and prosody.
    Accent as a Barrier
    • There are circumstances that can make
    communication even between two healthy
    adults more challenging. Consider the
    native language background of the two
    participants.
    • It’s commonly understood that non-native
    speech is harder to understand than native
    speech, and this challenge can result in
    communication failure.
    • Communicative efficiency, or the time it
    takes to complete a task through
    conversation, is delayed when speakers do
    not share the same background language
    background.
    • People not understanding you
    • Avoiding social interaction with those who may not
    understand you
    • Frustration from having to repeat yourself all the
    time
    • People focusing on your accent more than on what
    Problems due to you are trying to say
    • These types of communication problems may have
    these challenges negative effects on job performance, educational
    advancement, and everyday life activities.
    • It may also negatively affect your self-esteem if you
    are having trouble communicating because of an
    accent.
    • That listeners are better at understanding a
    familiar talker than an unfamiliar talker,
    regardless of language background.
    • People get to know the specific properties
    of those they interact with frequently and
    What is so over time improve at understanding them.

    difficult about • Non-native speech deviates from native


    speech on a variety of dimensions, ranging
    accents from how single sounds are produced to
    speaking rate.
    • Accent training and reduction can help in
    better English speaking
    • Process of “re-mapping” the sounds, stress
    patterns, and rhythms of ones speech

    Accent reduction • Auditory discrimination, phonetic training


    and prosody training
    from linguistic • Psychological barriers

    perspective
    • Ask for clarification.
    • Use globally understood English, more
    pictures, less text, no idioms, and be aware
    of jargon

    What should a • Check understanding regularly


    • Slow the conversation down. The more
    non-native time both parties have to speak slowly,
    interpret what has been said, and prepare
    speaker do? a response, the better
    • Repeat and summarize – capture summary
    in the chat
    • It’s unfair to place the entire burden of
    communication on the non-native speaker
    • Native listeners can improve their ability to
    understand speech with relatively little exposure.
    • A native English listener listening to Mandarin-and
    French-accented English, not only will she get

    Your part as the better at understanding speakers from China,


    France, and Thailand, but the effect seems to extend
    to those from Guatemala, Korea, and Russia.
    Native Listener • Rather than placing the burden solely on the
    individuals who are already working to learn a
    language, native listeners can share this challenge,
    and work to improve their own perceptual abilities.
    • The burden of success of a conversation
    should be placed on both the native and non-
    native participants
    • Listeners bring more to the conversation than
    people assume.
    • In addition to linguistic expectations, social
    expectations also affect perception.
    Conclusion • As the number of non-native English speakers
    increase, it is important for native listeners to
    improve their listening skills.
    • Non-native speakers need to focus on
    speaking clearly with global understanding
    instead of heavy jargon and expressions.

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