Workshop "Mastering Lecture Skills: Accent and Clarity"

It is impossible not to have an accent. Both native and non-native speakers most commonly retain an accent as part of their identity. The assumption that positive attitude towards the L1 (in our case Russian) accent and the acquisition of some degree of native speaker accent so as to ensure intelligibility has proved to be reliable in practice. The   workshop will focus on the five key English accent features that need to be built on a Russian accent to further prevent the most common intelligibility flaws in Russian English speech.

Tutor: Tatiana Skopintseva is Chair of the Humanities and Languages Department at New Economic School in Moscow. Before joining NES, she worked at the Department of English Phonetics at MSLU where she earned her Kandidat Nauk and Associate Professor degrees. Tatiana is an IREX alumna (UPenn), a frequent IATEFL speaker and is currently an IATEFL PronSig general committee member. 

Time: March 14, Wednesday, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
Location: Myasnitskaya 20, Room 238
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/umYfnDNs3XBt0WQG2
Registration deadline: 13.03.2018