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This website has been created by Laura Rupp, Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Laura Rupp's research interest is in grammatical variation and change. She currently teaches courses in Global English, Postcolonial Language and Literature, English as a Second Language in the Netherlands and English Pronunciation. She also teaches English Pronunciation workshops for the Academic Language Programme at VU. She has taught workshops English pronunciation to the Dutch military, lawyers and university professors. She obtained a grant from SURF (the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research) to design the materials on the this website as well as a MOOC English pronunciation in a global world that runs on the platform FutureLearn . She also coordinated the ‘Schooltalenproject‘ for the Dutch Ministry of Education that aims to raise language awareness amongst pupils in secondary education, which very much includes the function of different accents! In 2002 Laura Rupp was awarded the VU Teaching Award.
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