Promoting Intercultural Communication Competence and Engaged Listening by Interrogating the Ethics of Accent Modification.

This assignment was developed as an interdisciplinary exercise by instructors in Communication Studies and Speech Language Pathology & Audiology and is designed to contribute to shared learning objectives related to intercultural competence and linguistic diversity. Through an analysis of accent modification, students are specifically encouraged to identify cultural and social factors related to self and others in the context of speech sounds and speech sound disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]