Show teachers be tested for enunciation?

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I have had many teachers who are difficulty to understand.  For example, I had one that pronounced "valence electrons" as "violence electrons".  It took me half the period to put the term in context. In the mean time I missed the point of the lecture. 

Now with the advent of SIRI, there must be technology that could test enunciation.  Should teachers be required to pronounce words from their field into a testing device and receive a diction score?  

At a minimum they would know the words that students might have trouble understanding.  Maybe they would be kind enough to write them on the board the first time they use them?

Cogito · Accepted Answer

It's a good point - but I wonder how good your own English is - I'm guessing it's not your first language either, as you've made a number of errors in your question, and English is a really difficult language to learn.
You've used 'show' in the title - and if you pronounce 'should' (the correct word) as 'show', you could also be confusing people.
And people 'are difficult to understand' or you 'have difficulty understanding them.'

I've worked with some areas of voice recognition technology, and the variety of different accents and dialects, particularly in English, causes real problems.  
Also, while some people do have difficulty understanding strong accents, others just seem to 'get it' easily.

But I agree that writing them on a board or overhead projector would be a very good idea.
As soon as you get a teacher with bad English or a strong accent, maybe you could suggest that words be 'visible' somehow?

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Show teachers be tested for enunciation?

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