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Imagine you are going to hire a Putonghua teacher for your child. Do you want your child to learn Beijing accent or Hunan accent?
I agree that, generally, we should be looking for "good" teachers. But if 2 teachers are as good in almost all other aspects, and one has good western accent (ok, London accent or New York accent, whatever you prefer) and one has horrible Hong Kong accent (ie robotic, monotonus accent), which one you would like more? I am trying compare scientifically.
What accent is proper accent is still arguable. Generally, we all have our own "preference" in our mind. But if I really have a choice, I really do not like the typical Hong Kong accent. May be it is because of our language, ie Cantonese. Typical Hong Kong English accent is too robotic and monotonus. Even people from Beijing have much more "beautiful" English accent.
Accent is important, especially when we are taking about early childhood education up to lower primary education. Children are learning a language, even their own mother tongue. If children are constantly exposed to undesirable or strange accents, they sure are going to pick up some. So this accent issue is even more important to local school children, ie children that are learning English as a second language. When a child is learning a second language, of course, we would want them to learn it properly.
However, once a child is in secondary school, or even in university, accent is probably having much lesser influences on a person. My first year chemistry professor was a Russian lady and she was probably the best chemistry teacher I had ever had. (Still miss her.) But I just cannot image having her as a classroom teacher for Year 1s or 2s. |
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發表於 08-5-19 17:16
