Flora Debora Floris

Introduction Developing listening skills can be quite challenging for English learners, primarily due to their limited exposure to natural, real-life speech. This lack of exposure restricts learners’ ability to practise understanding natural speech patterns, accents and intonations, making it difficult to follow real-life conversations (Tsang, 2021). Additionally, many learners struggle to understand spoken language at the chunk level, which further complicates their ability to derive meaning from what they hear. This can lead to errors such as: sound misperception; confusion; omission; addition; and misinformation (Luu & Trinh, 2023). In addition, learners frequently face difficulties in understanding various English accents due to...

The article describes ten activities aimed at increasing learners’ awareness of the ethical implications of the advancement of AI.

The F-M-U approach ensures that learners learn about the form, the meaning and usage of a grammar item, thus making the teaching of it more complete and memorable. The method uses corpora to indicate usage and Task Based Learning to practise.