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The Growing Demand for Accent Coaching: Insights from Research and Implications for P-ESL Practitioners

FEBRUARY 10, 2025 |In today’s globalized world, the ability to communicate clearly and confidently using American English is a critical skill, particularly in professional fields such as Many individuals, including international professionals, seek accent coaching to enhance their intelligibility and ensure effective communication. As a speech-language pathologist (SLP) or language expert using the P-ESL (Pronouncing English as a Second Language) method, understanding the latest research on accent intervention can help you attract and serve clients more effectively. A 2019 review of accent intervention studies in the healthcare setting provides valuable insights into the benefits of accent coaching, the challenges in research quality, and the best practices for improving speech clarity… Read More

Announcing Exciting Updates to the P-ESL Certification Course

We are thrilled to announce a series of updates to our P-ESL Certification Course designed to enhance your learning experience and empower you to deliver top-notch accent instructional services. Here’s what’s new: Explore the updated P-ESL Certification Course today and take your skills to the next level. Empower your clients with clear and confident communication!

ASHA’s Preferred Terminology Update

In 2022, ASHAWire shared an updated perspective on preferred terminology regarding accent and pronunciation instructions. Read about it here: https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00376

Course Access

Some of our courses are being worked on through the end of August 2021. Working hard to get those courses back up and available to all students as soon as possible!

Updates and improvements!

The login/logout process has been creating a frustrating environment for some users of this site. Users were not seeing a clear pathway to the courses they paid for after logging in. In some instances, they weren’t seeing anything useful at all. This has been fixed! These issues have been addressed in recent maintenance, updates, and improvements performed on the site. Upon logging in with your email address and password, each user who has paid for ILP Academy access should be brought directly to the Account page, which displays a list of accessible courses, a progress bar for each course, and a link to the certificate of completion if it has… Read More

May 2021 Updates

MAY 24, 2021: Updates to the site were performed on May 21, and those updates lead to additional updates being necessary, which is taking just a bit more time than originally anticipated. Courses are down for just a short while – we expect course to be up again this week, and can gladly provide an extension to anyone who is inconvenienced by this.

March 2021 Updates

The ILP Academy website is receiving some major updates to the registration process and site navigation. It’s possible that registered users may stumble across an unexpected result while these updates are being implemented. We want to minimize the site “downtime” and cause as little interruption to your access as possible. Bear with us – the updates will improve your site experience.

Updates to our membership tracker software

Updates are being installed for the membership management software used at 800-language.com. Active members may have trouble logging in or accessing some features while these updates are being performed, but active members can still use their membership discount benefit when purchasing trainer materials by phone (800-526-4824, ask for the Research Division). This brief inconvenience will ONLY apply to this web site (800-language.com), and no effect on the PESL Practice and Assessment sites.

Password Reset Problems

This issue has been resolved for all site users. ILP Academy and AccentLink Pro members who are attempting to use the Forgot Password link to reset it are not having any success. It’s a problem that we’re aware of and are working to correct. In the meantime, if you find yourself locked out of the site and need assistance with resetting your password, please email joe@800-language.com, and we’ll get you back in promptly with a temporary password you can update once you are logged in again. All the best! Joe Comeau

Problems Logging In?

If you recently registered for ILP Academy and are not able to log in, please email joe@800-language – dot com to have your account reset. We’ll get you back in right away!