Resources

This webinar explores how teachers can leverage AI tools for effective Differentiated Instruction in mixed-ability classrooms. The session provides practical strategies, starting with using vocapkitchen.com to analyze a text's vocabulary level before utilizing AI text generators (like Claude or ChatGPT) to quickly tailor material difficulty and create supporting glossaries. Furthermore, the use of AI image tools such as Skybox Blockade Labs is demonstrated to craft engaging, creative activities that foster communication and collaboration. 

This is one of the sessions from the British Council's AI for Inclusion webinars. Other sessions can be viewed here.

The proliferation of language learning apps such as Duolingo and Babbel has significantly increased access to language education. At the same time, this trend raises important questions for teachers and researchers:
Can learning apps genuinely support language acquisition?
If so, how can educators effectively integrate them into practice?
In this podcast, hosts Leo and Andrew of Learn YOUR English welcome Dr. Shawn Loewen, Professor of Second Language Studies at Michigan State University, to examine these questions from the perspectives of second language acquisition, the research-practice gap, and mobile-assisted language learning.

The development of AI has become a huge challenge. Predictions abound about how it will affect not just ELT, but the world in general. After a whole year of fast-moving advances in AI development and available tools for a variety of uses within the ELT field, we are still working out what it means for us. We have been learning what it is and what we can use it for, from lesson planning to image creation and automated language learning. 

In this video, Svetlana Kandybovich and Miguel Miguez demonstrate that Question Charts, also known as Q-charts, is an excellent tool that can be used to practise speaking, writing, reading and listening, as well as develop critical and creative thinking in your students. 

The authors explain how teachers can use Q-charts in the classroom and share a digital version that incorporates AI to enable learner autonomy. 

Eigo.AI is a free website dedicated to delivering English language lessons for learners at all levels, including Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Utilizing a blend of Artificial Intelligence and human expertise, the platform offers a valuable resource for English teachers. It caters to a diverse range of language skills, making it an ideal choice for educators seeking to enhance their instructional methods in speaking, listening, writing, reading, and vocabulary.

Generative AI in higher education course - King's College London via Futurelearn 

• Alsic (Language Learning and Information and Communication Systems) [freely available online French academic journal but the abstracts are in English]

• British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET)

• Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

• International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT)

• The Internet TESL Journal

• Journal of Computers in Education

• Language, Learning & Technology

• ReCALL is the journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL)