or How to Quickly Make Your Materials Interactive Technically, I should start with a catchy introduction. But I doubt I can top an AI platform’s pitch for their AI-powered feedback tool (spotted their ad on Facebook yesterday): ‘I showed this…
It’s Saturday. Your long-awaited day off at the very end of the year. A new ELT-related article pops up in your blog news feed. C’mon, it’s Saturday! Who reads blog posts on weekends, anyway? Go to Card 2. Sounds fun, I’ll…
So tomorrow is Shakespeare Day, remember? Have you prepared your arsenal of tried and tested activities yet? Or has the Bard become totally irrelevant? I’ve recently had an amazing podcast experience taking part in the British Council podcast on the…
Ready for a pronunciation challenge? As I am closing down My English Domain website for learners, and moving my ELTCATION blog to its own domain, I am moving some posts here to make them available for teachers. The modules and…
How do you bring ‘overlearning’ to your learners? I have just completed my project, which I hope will serve as both a scaffold and an overlearning tool. While the holiday hustle may have stretched out the timeline a bit, I…
Teaching tips for better responses, or Sometimes silence is a really good answer, said no language teacher ever. How do you ensure that your students are giving their best responses? I’ve recently added a really effective strategy to enhance students’…
Fun pronunciation games for learners of English Paraphrasing the famous song, ‘It’s raining sounds, hallelujah.’ This post introduces a few interactive games that can aid in teaching the sounds of language. I’ve designed these games for both in-class and out-of-class…
Question Charts and Developing Learner Autonomy with AI Have you ever used Question Charts or Q-Charts as a resource for your students’ learning? Q-charts are excellent tools that can be used to practise speaking, writing, reading, and listening, and develop…
Games to play with AI-driven chatbots A common-sense warning: Before you assign any game with ChatGPT or an AI-driven chatbot, teach your students how to use this powerful tool sensibly and responsibly, i.e., make sure they know its basic principles…
LLMs/ChatGPT for Language Teachers Last month, I was invited to talk on Using AI Tools in Post-entry English and Academic Language Contexts for the English Australia Post-entry English and Academic Language (PEAL) SIG. This post describes a few ideas I…
