Which variety should teachers teach? Who speaks better English? Which variety is more correct? How many countries have English as official language? What does market want from your English? Find out!

1. Prof. Rodrigo Pelegrini Honorato
CACS – FAFICH/UFMG

2.  1 India  27 Namibia
 2 The United States  28 Lesotho
 3 Pakistan  29 Botswana
 4 Nigeria  30 The Gambia
 5 Philippines  31 Mauritius
 6 The United Kingdom  32 Swaziland
 7 South Africa
 33 Trinidad and Tobago
 8 Sudan
 34 Fiji
 35 Guyana
 9 Kenya  36 Solomon Islands
 10 Canada  37 Malta
 11 Uganda  38 The Bahamas
 12 Ghana  39 Belize
 13 Australia  40 Barbados
 14 Madagascar  41 Vanuatu
 15 Cameroon  42 Saint Lucia
 16 Zimbabwe  43 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 17 Malawi  44 Micronesia
 18 Zambia  45 Kiribati
 19 Rwanda  46 Grenada
 20 Sierra Leone  47 Seychelles
 21 Papua New Guinea  48 Dominica
 22 Singapore  49 Antigua and Barbuda
 23 Republic of Ireland  50 Marshall Islands
 24 New Zealand
 51 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 25 Liberia
 52 Palau
 53 Nauru
 26 Jamaica

3.  American English
 African American Vernacular English (Ebonics)
 Australian English
 British English
 Cockney (London)
 Irish English (Irish Brogue)
 Jamaican English (Patois)
 NYC English
 Philippino English
 Southern American English
 Welsh English

4.  1. Pronunciation refers to the
way a word or a language is
spoken, or the manner in which  1. (Linguistics / Phonetics
someone utters a word. If one is & Phonology) the act,
said to have "correct instance, or manner of
pronunciation", then it refers to pronouncing sounds.
both within a particular dialect.
 2. The act or manner of
 2. (Linguistics / Phonetics
pronouncing words; utterance of & Phonology) the
speech. supposedly correct manner
of pronouncing sounds in a
 3. A way of speaking a word, given language.
especially a way that is accepted
or generally understood.  3. (Linguistics / Phonetics
& Phonology) a phonetic
 4. A graphic representation of transcription of a word.
the way a word is spoken, using
phonetic symbols.

5. A regional or social variety of a
language distinguished by
pronunciation, grammar, or
vocabulary, especially a variety of
speech differing from the
standard literary language or
speech pattern of the culture in
which exists: Cockney, Patois,
AAVE etc.

6.  is a system for encoding information.
 language n. Communication of
thoughts and feelings through a
system of arbitrary signals, such as
voice sounds, gestures, pictures or
written symbols.

7.  Beach/Bitch
 Sheet/Shit
 Think/Sink/Fink (to inform against another person)
 Thank/Sank/Fánk(is a sweet traditional Hungarian
cake)
 How/Hoe (short for whore)
 Fork/Fuck
 Can’t/ Cunt
 Pusy/ Pussy
 Rock & Roll/ Hawk & Hoe

8.  What does it mean?
 Whatis the Lengua Franca spoken
throughout the world nowadays?
 Whatis the main purpose of
having a Lengua Franca ?

9.  Business English is the variety especially related to
international trade. It is a part of English for specific
purposes and can be considered a specialism within English language;
 Language for business situations;
 English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business
correspondence;
 Useful language for getting a job;

Business English is a form of international English.

10. Nowadays, there are more people
interacting in English as a second/foreign
language than as first language. This fact
,and the changes the language has been
going through, has led the teaching of
English as a foreign language to acquire a
new status which is the teaching of English
as an international language.

11.  Keys (2000) suggests that we
should change the criterion of
acceptability from one of native-
speaker-like competence to that
of intelligible and acceptable
performance.

12.  The Companies expect their staff/
employees to communicate effectively
and efficiently and we, linguists,
understand acceptable and intelligible
as well as acceptable pronunciation as
the necessary conditions for speakers
to put their message across and
communicate their thoughts.

14.  “sh” – National, Ocean, Chicago, Mission, Wash, Ship,
Shoes…
 “ch” – Choke, Watch, Chip, Choose, Choice, Branch,
French…
 “th” – Demonstrative Pronouns (This, That, These,
and Those), nothing, Thin, Ordinal numbers (Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth…)
 “r” – Rate, Read, Rot, Roller, Rhonda, Real, Red…
 “h”- Hate, Heed, Hot, Holler, Honda, Heal, Head…

15.  Australian who went to New York City.
{/ai/ and /ei/}
 German in charge of the ship dispatcher.
/Ɵ/ and /s/
 Texan who drove up North and got pulled over. /
ai’di/ and /ai’dia/
 Japanese man in charge of the supplies.
/l/ and /r/

16. Intonation, the rises and falls in tone that make
the 'tune' of an utterance, is an important aspect
of the pronunciation of English, oftentimes
making a difference to meaning or implication.
Stress, for example, is most commonly indicated
not by increased volume but by a slight rise in
intonation (Brazil, Coulthard and Johns, 1980). A
native speaker usually has little difficulty in
hearing intonation changes in his or her own
language whereas others, however, may not find
it so easy.

17. ◦ Record yourselves on a tape. After a week or so listen
to it and check if you can understand it and then, play
your tape to a fluent speaker of the chosen language.
Check if he/she can understand it;
◦ Look in a mirror to check that your lips, tongue and
jaw are in the right position for each phoneme.
◦ Talk in class as much as they can - monitor and guide
them.

18. It is important to be said at the outset
that the aim of pronunciation
improvement is not to achieve a
perfect imitation of a native accent,
but simply to get the learner to
pronounce accurately enough to be
easily and comfortably
comprehensible to other speakers.

19. IFCOMMUNICATION IS
CARRIED OUT, YOU
HAVE ACHIEVED THE
GOAL THE WORLD
NEEDS.

20.  CELCE-MURCIA. Briton & Goodwin. Teaching
Pronunciation; A reference for teachers of English to
speakers of other languages. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
 KEYS, Kevin. Making the right noises: pronunciation and
teacher training in Brazil. Speak Out Pronunciation SIG
Issue 24. p. 40-44, 1999.
 KEYS, Kevin. Teaching Pronunciation for English as an
International Language. Speak Out Pronunciation SIG
Issue 25. p. 38-43, 2000.
 UR, Penny. A Course in Language Teaching. CUP, 1996.

21. Keep it Throwed!
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
* Ludwig Wittgestein