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Different Accents, Different Worlds!!. Tracy Chien-Yun, Yuan. Introduction. English accents and dialects vary widely in Great Britain.
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Different Accents, Different Worlds!! Tracy Chien-Yun, Yuan
Introduction • English accents and dialects vary widely in Great Britain. • English dialects may be different from each other, but all speakers within the English-speaking world can still generally understand one another. • In Great Britain, different dialects develop variant accents and cultures, and may result to some misunderstandings and some interesting events.
Introduction • Purpose1: what are UK native speakers’ impressions and reactions of different regional accents across Britain. • Purpose2: what does UK native speakers’ impress of foreign accents from different countries. • Research method: questionnaire-survey
Result of Suvey • Backgrand: • Interviewees: twelve people • half of them are male, the other six are female. • The age of the interviewees are among forty to fifty.
Q4. Can you tell different accents, do you judge them by their accents?
Q5. Do you think speaking with some accents can get better jobs or gain more respect?