Downloadable materials used in Caprario (2025) to teach students to identify and use self-paraphrase, clarification request, and comprehension checks. If you have questions or need additional information, you can contact Dr. Caprario at mcaprari@wku.edu.cn.
Short video used with US undergraduates in Subtirelu et al. (2022) and Lindemann et al. (2025) to encourage the use of collaborative strategies in communication with people from linguistic backgrounds different from their own. In previous training, the video has been followed by two reflection questions:
What skills do you have that would help you communicate with people who have a different accent from you?
What could you do to develop new strategies for effective communication with people who speak differently from you?
Text with three classroom communication difficulty scenarios, multiple-choice responses to those scenarios, feedback for each choice, and overall principles for successful communication with international instructors is available on request from me at lindemann@gsu.edu.
Ready-to-use materials:
Short video used by Subtirelu et al. (2022) and Lindemann et al. (2025) to explain why accents arise from segmental differences between English and other languages
Short video used by Subtirelu et al. (2022) and Lindemann et al. (2025) to explain suprasegmental differences between English and other languages
Full teaching materials from Jeong et al. (2025) including links to six brief YouTube videos, transcripts, and discussion questions.
Resources for developing materials, especially high-variability training:
SpeechBox, Northwestern University, database of downloadable unedited recordings, includes sentences used in many published studies. (Not ready-to-use, likely requires editing, e.g. to separate sentences)
International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA). Enormous archive of read story and unscripted speech, designed for listening through the site
Speech Accent Archive. Many speakers from different language backgrounds all reading the same paragraph
YouGlish. Search for a given word or phrase in YouTube videos (available for multiple languages). In English, can specify type of accent, but only by country, and only Inner Circle countries are listed.
Full teaching materials from Jeong et al. (2025) including links to six brief YouTube videos, transcripts, and discussion questions.
Jigsaw activity from Kang et al. (2015). Requires arranging mixed groups of speakers to complete activity, etc. (see article for details).
Short videos used by Subtirelu et al. (2022) and Lindemann et al. (2025) to explain why accents arise from segmental and suprasegmental differences between English and other languages, useful for awareness-raising and some potential for perspective-taking