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Unlike a few decades ago, using our phones, tablets, phablets or computers, all sorts of foreign language authentic materials are now easily available and accessible outside our language centres. Nevertheless, learners might find it difficult to select what is more effective for their learning process and be daunted by some complex features of natu...
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... see an indication of the Italian title of the 1975 American movie: Quel pomeriggio di un giorno da cani: the cultural connection with the movie is presumably something native speakers are aware of and something the writer intentionally refers to. Our learners could gather even more evidence by searching for dog day afternoon in Google images (see Fig. 2) 28 . 27 Results of Google searches are different for different users and times. These results were obtained on May 2017 and are very different at the time of writing this paper: this usually has little impact on the efficacy of the autonomous discovery process, but should be considered in the case of previously prepared activities. 28 ...
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... Exposing language learners to authentic contents and dialogues that occur among native speakers has become significantly easier than before. Authentic audio and video clips that are available online allow students to listen and watch native speakers in realistic, meaningful, natural, and culturally appropriate situations (Panneerselvam, 2020;Zanca, 2019). Access to these materials through various technologies gives teachers the opportunity to expose learners to the accents of native speakers of the language. ...
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