Show notes for Episode 29

Here are the show notes for Episode 29, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr JPB Gerald about the tensions around standard language ideology when teaching English as a foreign language, the problems with the English teaching ‘industry’, and the spread of English around the world, along with many other themes featured in his new book, Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness coming soon (30th September) from Multilingual Matters, Bristol.

We also talk in our regular Lang in the News segment about recent news stories about accent reduction and infant-directed speech.

JPB Gerald’s podcast: https://anchor.fm/unstandardized

Website: https://jpbgerald.com/blog/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JPBGerald

The book! https://multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800413269

Lang in the News links

Infant-directed speech research

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/14/1116524222/scholars-confirm-what-itsy-bitsy-babies-around-the-world-already-know?t=1661938173030

And this from University of York links nicely:

The York English Language Toolkit - changing IDS

Making your accent whiter

The AI startup erasing call center worker accents: is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it? | Technology | The Guardian

Linked thread here: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1562322119022845952

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy

Lisa Casey

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

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