【正文】 an)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)Come in!Hi, Professor Johnson!Do you have a minute? Fredrick!Come like your new office!Thanks!It’s much nicer than my old one… What can I do for you? Well… er… I’d like to talk about my English is great!You were my top student last ’s your new listening/speaking class with Professor Simmons?He’s a good teacher, alright… but, I’m worried about my classmates?I mean… my classmates are from all different ’m afraid that if I talk with them during group work, I’ll pick up their wouldn’t worry about that if I were ’s no way you can pick up a different accent just from being in class a few hours a ?Really!Just think of all the English you’re exposed to every day here in the United listen to the radio, you watch TV, you talk with your American friends, you chat with people in stores….Most of the English you hear is American ’re only with your classmates a couple of hours a ’s not going to affect your you sure?Positive!Let me give you an example….Umm … say you have a mother from Germany living in the United ’s say she has a child if the mother speaks English with a German accent, her child will still grow up speaking American ? Because the child’s getting language from lots of other places, not just the ’s the same for your understand your example about the child… but I think children learn language differently than you’re isn’t exactly the same because children CAN actually learn minds and bodies are much more flexible than ours, so it’s easier for adults who are studying a foreign language, accent is one of the hardest things to fact, most adults never lose their native does that mean I’ll never sound like a native that’s probably … that makes me wonder if I should take that pronunciation class that I signed up for next I’ll never sound like a native speaker, maybe I don’t need the wouldn’t look at it that a pronunciation class, there are still important things that you can what, for example?Like things that will make your speech clearer—things such as stress, rhythm, and intonation.(Man)(Woman)I’m don’t know what these me give you an example….Umm… OK….Today, when I was calling on students in my speaking class, I noticed that one of my students was asked the class why Sylvia hadn’t shown up,… and one student said, “Professor, I talked to her this morning and she is homesick.” When I heard the word “homesick,” I immediately thought that Sylvia was missing her home country and was too depressed to e to I starred asking more questions….Was she sad? Did she want to leave the United States to return home? After a few realized that Sylvia was at home just had a bad student who was telling me about Sylvia said “homesick” instead of “home sick.”(Man)(Woman)Oh!He said the words with the wrong… how do you say it … er …The wrong problem was that the student put the stress on the wrong like this are things that you study in a pronunciation class….And these are really important because if you get them wrong, there can be big(Man)(Woman) what happened in your !If you use correct stress when you speak, people will usually be able to understand you even if you have a different example, if someone had an Indian accent he might say … “She is home sick” … or if the person was from England he would say … “She is home sick.”(Man)(Woman)(Man)(Woman)(Man)Or if the person was from Australia he would say …“She is home sick”!Were you able to understand all these different accents? Yes!I’m surprised!That’s because the stress was the even if I can understand different accents, aren’t there some accents that are better than others? I’ve heard people say that a British accent is better than an American , from my point of view—and most language teachers would agreethere’s no such thing as a “best” , there are so many different kinds of English accents around the that one accent is “better” or “worse” than another is like saying that one country or group of people is “better” or “worse” than another can’t pare them that way—they’re just different.(Woman)(Man)I guess you’re right….Uh oh … it’s getting have to check out a book from the library before class, so I’d better get for your ’ll think over what you does this conversation take place? Question of the following statements is TRUE, according to the professor? Question the example given by the professor, what’s wrong with the student who said “homesick”? Question professor speaks English with several of the following does she NOT use? Question does the student decide to do at the end of the conversation? 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