My Research Question

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Being a teacher requires to master certain competencies such as knowing how to deliver knowledge to students taking into account the different teaching approaches and methodologies available to support students' learning processes, a teacher has also got to be aware of his/her students learning styles and learning paces. Considering these aspects that are embedded in the learning process (plus many more!), the teacher has to  notice a sense of progress in his/her students as well as the students. At the beginning of this learning process, it is easy for students to understand and perform the basic concepts that were taught in each lesson (especially during the basic stages in English learning) . However, there comes a time when students start fossilizing mistakes of certain verb tenses and I have noticed that this starts happening when students get to the pre-intermediate courses. I have seen that many of these learners are not able to control accuracy when they use the past tenses during speaking activities. The problem starts to appear when students have difficulties shifting aspects from simple past to past continuous. This has caught my attention since I see that it is a constant in the pre-intermediate levels. Therefore, the following question arose:

What are the effects of the voice message forum Voxopop on speaking accuracy of A2 learners?