| Hello group. Just wanted to chime in on this, as i was in attendance for 2 of Andrew Kirkpatrick's plenary sessions at JALT last year and he mentioned a very interesting thing: ( http://jalt.org/conference/jalt2008/plenary-sessions ) Many cities in Russia have recently begun hiring Chinese people to teach English at the university and corporate level. This reflects the amount of trade and business between the two countries, and, of course, the fact that English is language used. But the main thing to note is that for both countries' peoples, an American accent, or even something along the lines of a "ELF" core, would probably not serve them adequately for their purposes. Real world practices taking shape. Cheers to you all, Chris P. Madden University of Shizuoka, Japan |
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