Students sometimes are not aware of their own cultural diversity thus not being able to comprehend language diversity outside of their immediate context, this of course entails some other problems such as deifying one specific accent or stigmatizing another one. It is common to hear students saying that British English (Which they may think is the one and only spoken all over England, without taking into account how vast the UK really is) is more formal or that English spoken in Africa is to be rejected out of its lack of "purity". I believe approaching language studies without taking into account the massive knowledge you have already gotten as an individual in a given society affects the learning process.
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