Adrian Tennant

One issue often encountered when dealing with a global issue in the classroom is that often students have been swamped with certain topics and are fed up with talking about it. How many lessons are there on issues such as climate change, recycling, water and the carbon footprint? Another issue is that it is almost always a top-down approach, i.e. information in the Student Book (often in the form of a reading text) followed up by activities focusing on the vocabulary and grammar and culminating in a speaking activity, often a discussion. Such an approach often leads to disengagement...

The article argues that the natural extension of learner-centred classes is for the students to take on aspects of the class management.

The author shows that an article generated by AI requires precise specifications and might lack the human touch or the authentic author voice.

A number of useful activities including memory training, translation and dictation could be added to our current approaches.

The author argues that certain words are vital in certain cultures irrespective of whether they are included in the word lists produced by Western publishers and universities.