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Oggetto: CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Ten
things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
Data: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:01:11 +0200
Mittente: Claudia Soria <[email protected]>
A: [email protected], [email protected]
*đ *We are happy to remind you about the next webinar in the CIRCE
online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE
<https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM
University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC
<https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC.
*Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France)
*Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace
*Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET
*Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers,
language instructors
*Summary*: The university workplace is representative of
international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different
communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their
colleaguesâ and studentsâ accents â of Italian, of English, and in my
case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be
quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot
understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions,
we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a
language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed.
This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as
listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how?
In this talk Iâll summarize speech research findings about how listeners
can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. Iâll
look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual
trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. Iâll
describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented
speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples
will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French
public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused
in other professional contexts. If possible, Iâll also describe the next
steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop
participants as part of a longitudinal study.
*Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes,
France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science &
Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24
years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway,
Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual
conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research
interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the
perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction
(EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also
intrigued by listenersâ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic
perspective.â
Upcoming webinars:
- Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant
experiences from âdown-underâ/ (Monday, May 12, 2025)
- Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent
perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025)
- Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical
Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 2025
The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access
this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training
Environment
<https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>.
Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course âLanguage and
Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Seriesâ and activate it with the
code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed.
The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on
the H2IOSC Training Environment
<https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any
inquiry, write to [email protected] <mailto:
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