Re: Pronunciation

This article is mainly about USA immigrants, but possibly relevant.

http://www.educationnews.org/Commentaries/Learn_and_Teach_English.htm

Possessing strong English language skills is critically important to 
succeeding in the United States. Research has demonstrated decisively that 
regardless of where an immigrant lives, what level of schooling he or she 
attains, or how long they have lived in this country, no factor contributes 
more to their success than fluency in English.
The following findings illustrate why:
1. Immigrants to the United States can raise their earnings by well over 20 
percent if their ability to speak English is raised from "not well" to "very 
well." Further, other effects of building human capital through experience 
living in this country are blunted for those with poor English language 
skills.
2. Improving English language skills contributes about 16 to 18 percent to 
the narrowing of the wage gap between male immigrants and natives, and about 
6 to 10 percent for female immigrants.

There are 8 other reasons.  "Speaking English" I assume means good 
pronunciation as well.

tom z

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