This article is an initial imagining of what an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy (APP) might look like in ELT contexts such as immigrant employment training and international students studying in North American higher-education institutions. Three possible foci of an APP are briefly explored. First, this pedagogy helps students refuse the idea…

The unprecedented rise of English to become a global lingua franca has sparked a growing academic interest with numerous research publications on global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and English as an international language. Although this research has led to numerous informative findings concerning pronunciation, pragmatics, and…

Reports an investigation carried out into students' and teachers' perceptions of appropriate models of English pronunciation and grammar. The study is based on two parallel questionnaire surveys that looked at students' and teachers' attitudes to questions of conforming native-speaker norms. (Author/VWL)