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Everyone has an accent to someone from a different region! Middle and high schoolers learn more about the ways those with seemingly foreign accents are perceived by those who speak differently, and how individuals tend to have a bias for their own way of speaking.
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Instructional Ideas
- Have class members analyze their own dialects and compare the way they say specific words to those with different dialects
- Pause the video after the initial question, and see if they come to the same conclusion as the speaker demonstrates
Classroom Considerations
- Requires access to the Internet for both the video and the assessment
- Be sure that your class can engage with the topic in a cooperative and non-discriminatory way
Pros
- Provides interesting information for both a linguistics class and a psychology class
- Comes with a short multiple-choice assessment and discussion questions
Cons
- Video focuses on a close-up of the speaker with only a few cutaway clips, which make the resource less engaging than it could be