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AI in ELT
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Artificial Intelligence in English Language Teaching. Check out http://aielt.org for tons of ideas on integration of Generative AI into language teaching
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AI in ELT @aielt.bsky.social · Jan 9
AI in ELT (www.aielt.org): A dedicated site for language teachers, offering strategies to integrate Artificial Intelligence into the classroom and helpful tips for students
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I am sharing a free download of my latest publication. It brings together all the content from the site (aielt.org) in a single, comprehensive book.
September 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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A great way to use ChatGPT or similar tools live in the language classroom for microwriting tasks focusing on language chunks aielt.org/2025/06/28/c...
Chunk enriched texts
This time I am going to share how we can use Claude live in class to first generate short text messages and then create chunk-enriched versions in order to raise awareness of common formulaic langu…
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June 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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ChatGPT or similar Gen AI tools can instantly create interactive adventure stories for the language classroom after providing the prompt in the blog post aielt.org/2025/06/07/c...
Create your own adventure
If I were to choose my favourite LIVE class activity from the blog so far, this would definitely be my pick.  A ‘create your own adventure’ story is an interactive narrative where …
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June 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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New blog post on AI for ELT today: Scaling material down. Ideal for lower to intermediate levels if you would like to do work on tone, register and mediation. aielt.org/2025/04/07/s...
Scaling material down
If our students are struggling with online reading material, they can simply copy and paste it into a Gen.AI tool –I will be using Claude this time- and ask for a simplified, shorter version of it.…
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April 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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New blog post on AI in ELT: Listen and clap. Using speech feature in ChatGPT with lower levels. aielt.org/2025/04/05/l...
Listen and clap
There are a handful of voice extensions we can install in our browser as add-ons to interact with ChatGPT through voice. These extensions can also read ChatGPT’s responses outloud. Some popular ext…
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April 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Brand new in AI in ELT: From song to haiku. Getting creative with using ChatGPT to generate amazing reading and writing materials. aielt.org/2025/04/01/r...
Recontextualization: from song to haiku
Recontextualisation is a process that extracts text, signs or meaning from its original context and places it in another context. This time we are going to ask Gen. AI to turn a song into a ha…
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April 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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New blog entry on AI in ELT: Social Media Discourse. Ace your posts on social media to get audience attention. aielt.org/2025/03/29/s...
Social media discourse
As language teachers, we try to prepare students for the different types of writing they encounter in exams, such as essays, emails, reports, reviews, or proposals. However, we often miss out on ot…
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March 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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New blog post: Video games. Students discuss video games and decide what video game from the descriptions given by Chat GPT would be more appealing to them. aielt.org/2025/03/24/v...
Video games
This is a Gen.AI-powered activity centered around the theme of video games, which will certainly appeal to teenagers. Students will read descriptions and reviews of video games and engage in discus…
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March 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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New blog post today: learners work independently on word accuracy and register. aielt.org/2025/03/22/w...
Word makeover: from old to new
Today we are going to take a look at a highly productive activity students can do on their own to challenge themselves and play with the language. The idea is to type a sentence into a Gen.AI took …
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March 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Latest blog post on my blog: Ask the expert. Learners have voice conversations with ChatGPT around their favorite topics or fields of expertise. aielt.org/2025/03/10/a...
Ask the expert
Throughout my 34-year career as an English teacher, I have taught adult students from all walks of life: doctors, lawyers, farmers, the unemployed… Their interests have been just as varied, ranging…
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March 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In my last blog post I explore ways to create open-ended grammar exercises in the classroom with Gen.AI as teaching and learning happen. aielt.org/2025/03/08/o...
Open-ended grammar exercises
Grammar exercises in coursebooks tend to be close-ended or controlled, leaving little to no room for creativity. The main reason for this is that such exercises are easier to check, whether in clas…
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March 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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New blog post on AI in ELT today. Make the most of a reading passage by engaging your students in communicative activities based on interesting collocations from the text.
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Mining reading passages for collocations 1
Today we are going to ask Claude to generate collocations (clusters of two or three words that commonly appear together in spoken and written English more frequently than they would occur by chance…
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March 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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It's my first #Edu #Ai and #EdTech edition of March, and there are plenty of resources, insights and guidance to keep even the naughtiest of us out of mischief for hours. Dive in, digest, connect with like-minded folks, grow your #PLN and share ❤️

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March #Edu resources - part 1🌞
Hi lovely people! Well, what can I say, "pinch and a punch for the first of the month?" I'm probably getting a bit old for that. 😉 Been a slightly tougher week for me, spent some time in the hospital ...
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March 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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If you are looking for fresh ideas to do grammar work in different creative ways, do not miss this week`s blog post: Conditional sentences. Frills free. Photocopy free. No preparation needed. . #AIELT #grammar #edtech#AIineducationhttps://aielt.org/2025/02/26/conditional-sentences/#more-681
Conditional sentences
Today I will be adapting 3 types of activities focusing on practicing conditional sentences to involve our language assistant –ChatGPT- to, in turn, engage and provide extra motivation for our stud…
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February 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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The Amazing Science of Bad Language, with Dr Emma Byrne | The Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2025 an @humanists.uk event. #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageEducation #TESOL
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The Amazing Science of Bad Language, with Dr Emma Byrne | The Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2025
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February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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60 Free Film Noir Movies. Watch 'em online
60 Free Film Noir Movies
Watch 60 great Noir films directed by Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. All free.
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February 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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New blog entry: Class debates 2. aielt.org/2025/02/20/c...
Class debates 2
This is the second blog post on how we can get Gen.AI to create content for debates in the language classroom and then how we can use that material when we see our students later on and how the les…
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February 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Loving it
edutopia.org Edutopia @edutopia.org · Feb 14
From teacher tlnwilkinson: “Stealing awesome ideas like this is the best part of social media. Best morning work ever!!”

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Handwritten chart titled "It's T.G.I.F. Time!" It has 4 questions, each with a bunch of sticky notes with answers underneath. The questions are: "What did you TRY this week?" "What are you GRATEFUL for?" "What INSPIRED you this week?" and "What was FUN this week?"
February 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Identity in a digital age

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Identity in a digital age
Conflux winter residency explores what comes after AI
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February 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Worth checking
alkingsley.bsky.social Al Kingsley MBE @alkingsley.bsky.social · Feb 15
Tired of information overload on education, EdTech & AI? 🤯 My newsletter curates the top insights so you don't have to! 🤓 Subscribe and check out this week's edition for loads of bite-sized learning and amazing time saving resources .
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February 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/02/15/c...
Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists o…
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February 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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New blog post: ask your students to copy paste a reading passage into ChatGPT, then it can interview them about the content for great speaking practice focusing on key lexical items. #AIELT #edtechtools #edtech #teacherResources #AIineducation aielt.org/2025/02/14/f...
From reading to speaking practice
With the rise of Gen.AI, language learners now have countless ways to practice speaking. They could simply hold voice conversations with the sole intent of having someone to talk to in order to use…
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February 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Voice AI is transforming student assessment! Moving from traditional testing to seamless, natural evaluation processes. Are you ready for this shift? 🎓🗣️ #Education #AIEDU
25 AI predictions for 2025
The AI Story for Education
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February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster

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AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster | Letters
Letters: Dr Tom McClelland on the consequences of AI consciousness, Michael Webb on protecting creative industries, and Prof Virginia Dignum and Prof Wendy Hall on the need for a global regulatory fra...
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February 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM