Join us on Saturday February 28th for PronSIG’s first book club event of 2026 as we discuss the fascinating article Listener training for library staff: receptive accommodation at work by Alice Henderson & Nadi Ferchiche (available here) published in issue 70 of PronSIG’s biannual journal, Speak Out!
We will be joined by the lead author, Alice Henderson, who will have some questions for us to consider and discuss, followed by a Q&A.
Open to members and non-members alike!
The excerpt (3 pdfs in total) can be accessed for free here.
Additional information:
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About the speaker:
Alice Henderson is a Full Professor at Université Grenoble – Alpes, France, where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to STEM students. She has been involved in training teachers in France, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the bi-annual international conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP). She has published internationally on English pronunciation learning and teaching, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI), and is now exploring listener roles from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective.