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The Polish teachers of English whom I have had the pleasure to know are true scholars interested in not only the pedagogical aspects of how students acquire English as a second language, but also in the details of the phonetic and phonological differences between the two languages, the dynamics of the articulatory process, and the acoustic correlates of non-native accent. The Accents conferences in Lodz are both an effect and a cause of this interest. I have attended two of these conferences and have been uniformly impressed both with academics from Poland and with contributors from other countries . Most delegates want their students to achieve a native-like pronunciation of some form of English. Whether this should be the desired outcome, how this can be achieved if so, and what sort of English should serve as target are subjects of endless debate, as are the intricacies of the English vowel system(s) and of the suprasegmental aspects of English and other languages. I believe that the collection of papers you will find in this volume is a fair representation of the very high standard of discussion and debate at Accents 2008. -Linda Shockey, Ph.D., Pronunciation Linguist, B.B.C.

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Ewa Waniek-Klimczak is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Łódź, Poland. Her teaching and research focus on second language phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, language varieties and English pronunciation. Over the years, she has organized conferences on teaching English phonetics and phonology and variability in native and non-native accents of English and edited or co-edited books containing contributions to the field, including Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology (co-edited with J. P. Melia, Peter Lang 2002) and Issues in Accents of English (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008). She is also editor of the journal Research in Language, published annually by Versita and the University of Łódź.

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