ListServe: What English Should be Taught...

Since pronunciations do vary with teachers depending where they are from or where they learned their English, I believe it is important that the students have choices in choosing their teachers.  It depends what they will be using their L2 for:  work?  pleasure? travel? academia?  Testing? Teaching a language has to be very clear, enunciated clearly and correctly.  With this comes some flexibility with the pronunciation.  English is world-spoken and can have many dialects.  I had a USF Statistics teachers assistant teach attempt to be a good teacher. I had to drop the course and choose another math course to pass my state boards for the GKT.  When the pronunciation hinders learning, something is definitely wrong.  Hiring and placing these teachers has to be thoughtfully considered