Lessons plans

Teaching Accents, Teaching Inclusion

How do students react when they hear a different accent?
What stereotypes surface?
And how can we turn those reactions into meaningful learning opportunities?

The CIRCE Lesson Plans were created to support secondary school teachers in addressing accents and linguistic diversity in engaging, critical, and inclusive ways.

The activities are ready to use yet flexible, designed to foster discussion, attentive listening, and reflection on the connections between language, identity, and prejudice. They are available both for teaching in the national languages (Bosnian, Italian, Portuguese) and as English-medium activities that explore accents from an international perspective.

The goal is not simply to talk about accents, but to help students recognise linguistic diversity as a resource and to develop a more informed and respectful understanding of difference.

Bringing linguistic diversity into the classroom means educating for citizenship.
These materials aim to provide practical tools to make that possible.

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