Το έργο CIRCE σε συνεργασία με το DFCLAM University of Siena, το έργο H2IOSC και το CNR-ILC, διοργανώνουν την Δευτέρα 28 Απριλίου 2025 και ώρα 16:30 (CET) διαδικτυακό σεμινάριο με τίτλο "Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace".
Η συμμετοχή στο σεμινάριο είναι ελεύθερη για όλους. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι καλούνται να δημιουργήσουν λογαριασμό και να εγγραφούν στο Εκπαιδευτικό Περιβάλλον H2IOSC προκειμένου να παρακολουθήσουν το σεμινάριο. Μόλις συνδεθείτε στην πλατφόρμα με τα διαπιστευτήριά σας, επιλέγετε το μάθημα "Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series" και εισάγετε τον κωδικό PbK837GtE.
Ακολουθεί περίληψη του σεμιναρίου στα αγγλικά:
The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how?
In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study.
