Ella Jeffries

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April 29, 2025

Ella Jeffries, University of Essex

Five-year-olds showed a strong association between a standard southern English accent and intelligence.

When teachers validate children’s ways of speaking, this can have a profound effect on the way they learn. Monkey Business Images | Shutterstock

March 11, 2022

Amanda Cole, University of Essex; Ella Jeffries, University of Essex, and Peter L Patrick, University of Essex

Linguicism sees people penalised for speaking in non-standard forms of English.

It’s not just Northern accents that face discrimination. The Essex accent is also the source of stigma. pxl.store/Shutterstock

October 26, 2020

Monika Schmid, University of Essex; Amanda Cole, University of Essex, and Ella Jeffries, University of Essex

Stereotyping people based on their accents is still a big problem at universities in England.