Sitting across from his teacher, Edgar Martinez repeated the word he couldn’t quite pronounce: “situation.” “Sit-oo-a-shun,” he said. “What happens with the tu?” asked the teacher, Lisa Mojsin, hired ...

The foreign accents that charm many Americans can also be a major barrier to getting hired after graduation. In order for international students with heavy accents to improve their employment chances ...

Carolina Freedman can read and write English perfectly but says she's been embarrassed when speaking it. She says she's had people tell her they don't speak Spanish when she's speaking English. "I was ...

Sheri Brooks, an English as a Second Language teacher who specializes in accent reduction, works with Andrea Tontodonati, left, of the Philippines. The Lancaster General Hospital employee wanted to ...

OAK RIDGE — It’s OK to talk Southern and work at a national lab — after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has canceled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab ...

The rain in Spain won’t be falling mainly on the plain after all, at least not at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Tennessee-based research facility canceled what it had billed as a “Southern accent ...

(WBIR) After a backlash from employees, Oak Ridge National Laboratory decided to drop a class that teaches how to minimize a southern accent. ORNL spokesperson David Keim said employees had requested ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Ever consider getting rid ...