Episode 29 - JPB Gerald

<p><strong>Show notes for Episode 29</strong></p> <p><strong>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, </strong><em><strong>Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness</strong></em><strong> coming soon (30th September) from Multilingual Matters, Bristol.</strong></p> <p><strong>We also talk in our regular Lang in the News segment about recent news stories about accent reduction and infant-directed speech.</strong></p> <p>JPB Gerald’s podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/unstandardized"><u>https://anchor.fm/unstandardized</u></a></p> <p>Website: <a href="https://jpbgerald.com/blog/"><u>https://jpbgerald.com/blog/</u></a></p> <p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JPBGerald"><u>https://twitter.com/JPBGerald</u></a></p> <p>The book! <a href="https://multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800413269"><u>https://multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800413269</u></a></p> <p><strong>Lang in the News links</strong></p> <p>Infant-directed speech research</p> <p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/14/1116524222/scholars-confirm-what-itsy-bitsy-babies-around-the-world-already-know?t=1661938173030"><u>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/14/1116524222/scholars-confirm-what-itsy-bitsy-babies-around-the-world-already-know?t=1661938173030</u></a></p> <p>And this from University of York links nicely:</p> <p><a href="https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/changing-ids"><u>The York English Language Toolkit - changing IDS</u></a></p> <p>Making your accent whiter</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/23/voice-accent-technology-call-center-white-american"><u>The AI startup erasing call center worker accents: is it fighting bia