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Recently, British university researchers said that a computer programme can help Asian students to deal with __41__ English accents which are difficult to understand. This is good news for students who get __42__ by different English accents.

       Computer scientists at Nottingham University said that some Asian students in Britain find it difficult to understand the range of different English accents. Among native English speakers, many different accents __43__. Some accents are easily __44__ by certain features. But more variations can be difficult to understand.

       Difficulties can be experienced in the process of distinguishing sounds at the end of spoken English words, like rope versus robe, and at the start, like tin versus thin. This can make __45__ speech difficult to follow, as misunderstanding a single word can potentially change the whole __46__ of a sentence. It would be useful to have something that would make it easier for foreign students to understand different English accents.

       The researchers’ Spoken English Discrimination (SED) training programme can train Chinese speakers in how to sense differences in speech sounds in difficult conditions, such as accented speech or in situations in which there are a number of sounds in the background, a university release reported.

       “Our findings have shown that SED training programme really does have a significant __47__ on enabling Asian students to distinguish between sounds,” researcher, Nicola Pitchford said. “There is a(n) __48__ potential for SED. There has already been interest in the programme, from government organizations, to a major Chinese mobile phone company who is interested in developing it into an educational phone __49__.” 

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