New Foreign Accents in Swedish
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چکیده
In this contribution a project is presented which aims to expand and update the course material for the education of future teachers in Swedish as a foreign language. Due to new patterns of global migration in the last decades, the existing material needs to be complemented, which entails further analysis and description. As global migration affects Sweden in a similar way to many other countries, this contribution aims to trigger the discussion about how teaching of pronunciation for this group of student teachers is addressed elsewhere.
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