EPISODE · Sep 17, 2022 · 55 MIN
Episode 29 - JPB Gerald
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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 Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify 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 Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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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 Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify 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 Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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