There's a difference between helping a student communicate more clearly and teaching them that their voice is somehow wrong. I think we blur that distinction far too often. Of course pronunciation is something we can teach. Sometimes adjusting a sound makes a message easier to understand. But an accent isn't, by itself, a language error. And whose accent are we even treating as the standard? I've spent a lot of time thinking about that question as a bilingual person and a language educator. It affects what we correct, how we correct it, and what students learn about whether they belong in the language they're learning. I recorded a new YouTube Short for The Multilingual Mind about why accents aren't language mistakes: https://youtu.be/EQNU-T0pprY I'd love to know how other language teachers help students develop pronunciation without making one way of sounding seem inherently more legitimate than all the others.