Name: 為何 ESL 學習者需要「指導」而非「語言治療」？ (Why ESL Learners Need COACHING, Not Speech Therapy)
Uploaded: 2026-03-15T17:37:22.000Z
Duration: 8 min 10 s

Hey, everyone, this is Jennifer with Tarle Speech.

嗨，大家好，我是 Jennifer，來自 Tarle Speech。

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And Last year, in 2025, we completed the 50 week American English Pronunciation Masterclass challenge, where we went through every sound in American English, learned about it, learned how to make that sound, and

去年，也就是 2025 年，我們完成了為期 50 週的 American English Pronunciation Masterclass challenge，我們學了美式英語的每一個發音，瞭解它，學習如何發出那個音，然後

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Each week throughout that, I got a lot of questions about speech therapy and if you need speech therapy to fix your accent, and

在那段期間的每週，我收到很多關於語言治療的問題，以及你是否需要語言治療來修正口音，

the short answer is, no, you do not need speech therapy.

簡單的答案是，不需要，你不需要語言治療。

And then people would also ask, so is speech therapy about helping me to get rid of an accent?

然後大家也會問，所以語言治療是為了幫助我擺脫口音嗎？

Now, that is a little more of a complex question.

嗯，這個問題就比較複雜一點了。

So let's kind of dive into that today and talk about it a little bit.

所以我們今天就來深入探討一下這個話題。

And speech therapy is ultimately not about erasing identity.

而且語言治療最終不是要抹去身份認同。

It is about helping people to be functional communicators.

它主要是幫助大家成為功能性溝通者。

So I am here as a communications coach for all of you to help you to be as intelligible and as clear and confident in your communication as possible.

所以今天我會以溝通教練的身份，幫助大家在溝通上盡可能做到易於理解、清晰且自信。

I can help people who have speech and language disabilities to gain communication and to use their communication skills to their maximum ability.

我可以幫助有語言和溝通障礙的人，讓他們能溝通，並運用他們的溝通技巧到最大能力。

But with all of you, I am here to help you to be creative, clear and confident speakers.

但對大家來說，我是在這裡幫助你們成為富有創意、清晰且自信的說話者。

And that pattern can include sounds, sound rules, grammar rules, and vocabulary choices.

而這種模式可能包含發音、發音規則、文法規則以及詞彙選擇。

So when we are very young, we have this incredible ability to hear and.

所以當我們很小的時候，我們就有這種驚人的聽力能力。

And to learn patterns and to use those patterns from many different languages amazingly well.

並且能學習模式，而且能極好地運用這些模式，來自許多不同的語言。

And that's why many people who learn languages when they are younger can speak languages with almost no, if no accent at all.

這也是為什麼很多人在年輕時學習語言，可以幾乎沒有口音地說出那種語言。

As we get older, it's a little bit harder to do that because we lose the ability to hear all of the sounds and to kind of have that pattern recognition that we do when we are young.

隨著年齡增長，這會變得比較困難，因為我們失去了聽所有聲音的能力，也失去了年輕時的那種模式辨識能力。

所以，在座的每個人都有口音。

It really depends on who you ask whether you have an accent or not.

這真的取決於你問誰，你是否有口音。

So I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, and I have an accent that is called Pittsburghese.

我小時候住在賓夕法尼亞州西部，我有一種叫做「匹茲堡腔」的口音。

And when I moved to Ohio for college, everyone there said, oh, you have an accent.

當我為了上大學搬到俄亥俄州時，那裡的人都說，「喔，你有口音。」

And I was shocked because to me, the people in Ohio had the accent.

我很驚訝，因為對我來說，俄亥俄州的人才有口音。

So that's just like a nice little antidote as to how we think about accents.

這就像一個很好的解藥，告訴我們該如何看待口音。

An accent is just something that we do when we are speaking.

口音只是我們說話時會有的東西。

But you can change it if your accent is becoming a problem.

但如果你的口音造成了問題，你是有辦法改變的。

And it's making it really difficult for you to communicate and you are becoming frustrated.

而且它讓你溝通起來很困難，你也會感到沮喪。

I work with many people, one on one, to help them to reduce their accent and to become clear.

我一對一地跟很多人合作，幫助他們修正口音，讓他們說話更清晰。

And the way that we do that is through a coaching model.

我們這麼做的方式是透過一個教練模式。

So I have have the person read a lot of words, read a paragraph, and

所以，我會請對方唸很多單字，唸一段，

And then I analyze what is different, what is impacting the way that that person is speaking.

接著我會分析哪些地方不同，哪些地方影響了這個人的說話方式。

And then we come up with a plan based on patterns and how those patterns impact the way other people can understand them.

然後我們就會根據這些說話模式，以及這些模式如何影響別人對他們的理解，來制定一個計畫。

And then we address those patterns from week to week.

接著我們每週都會處理這些模式。

The person goes off and practices on their own, and

then comes back and we learn a new pattern.

然後再回來，我們就會學習新的模式。

You can watch that video link that below, and those are on clear speaking.

你可以看看下面的影片連結，那些是關於清晰說話的。

It's about speaking slow enough, loud and low enough, opening and moving your mouth enough, pausing and elongating some words and your vowels in English.

這包括說話夠慢、夠大聲、夠低沉，嘴巴張開和移動得夠多，以及在英文中適當地停頓和拉長一些單字和母音。

So again, intelligibility is really the issue with an accent.

所以，再次強調，口音的問題其實就在於易於理解的程度。

And it's about your ability to be understood without being frustrated.

這關乎你能不能被理解，而且不會感到挫折。

So you can change nothing or you can change a lot of things.

所以你可以什麼都不改，也可以改很多地方。

It really depends on you, on your situation, and

這真的取決於你，取決於你的狀況，還有

what you need for work or just for yourself to feel confident.

你為了工作或只是為了讓自己感覺自信而需要什麼。

So I always tell my students, it's not about sounding like me.

所以我總是告訴我的學生，這不是要聽起來像我。

A lot of my students choose to code switch, which means they will use some strategies at work or in social settings or with certain people in order to be as clear as possible, and

我的很多學生會選擇「語碼轉換」，也就是他們會在工作場合、社交場合或跟特定的人時，運用一些策略來盡量讓自己說得清晰，

然後跟朋友和家人在一起的時候。

They speak, however feels most genuine and natural.

他們說話的方式，聽起來最真實、最自然。

我會這樣做，我想我們大家都會。

And I always use the example of if you are speaking to someone who has a hearing impairment, this is if you're speaking to someone who has hearing difficulties in any language.

我總是舉個例子，如果你在跟有聽力障礙的人說話，無論用什麼語言。

We change the way that we speak to help that person understand us the best.

我們會改變說話方式，來幫助那個人最好地理解我們。

This is what I am encouraging all of my students to do, which is to just flex a little bit to help the person to whom you are speaking.

這就是我鼓勵我所有學生的，也就是稍微調整一下，來幫助你說話的對象。

And I would even take this a step further and say that everybody needs to do this.

我甚至會更進一步說，每個人都需要這麼做。

Not just a person who may have an accent, but

everyone needs to be a clear and effective communicator at all times.

每個人都需要隨時成為清晰且有效的溝通者。

So I really believe that we can all have better lives through better communication.

所以我真的相信，透過更好的溝通，我們都能擁有更好的生活。

And better communication means different things for different people.

而更好的溝通，對不同的人來說，意義也不同。

這不是要你試著像我一樣，而是

it's about embracing communication so that you can be as effective and as confident in your speaking as you need to be.

而是要擁抱溝通，讓你能在說話時，發揮你所需的有效性和自信。

And I do that to help people access the world and to be functional within the world.

我這麼做是為了幫助人們連結世界，並在這個世界中成為功能性溝通者。

But most of you out there don't need speech therapy.

但你們大多數人不需要語言治療。

You just need a few strategies, maybe to learn a few patterns.

你們只需要一些策略，或許學一些說話模式。

And then you can apply what you need as you need it, to be as effective as possible.

然後你們就能在你需要的時候運用這些，盡可能地發揮效用。

choose what is best for you to maximize your communication for confidence and effectiveness.

選擇最適合你的方式，來最大化你的溝通能力，讓你更有自信和成效。

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