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Prompts for developing vocabulary materials with AI

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Developing materials, Lexis, Resources, Revision. 1 Comment on Prompts for developing vocabulary materials with AI

Writing good AI prompts for developing vocabulary materials was the focus of Elif Atali’s presentation at IATEFL this year. Elif is a teacher at Bursa Technical University in Turkey and was the winner of our Lexical Lab scholarship. Here she outlines her presentation and relates her wider experiences. Over to Elif Writing vocabulary materials with AI My presentation explored innovative ways to enhance writing instruction through AI-driven task design, with a particular emphasis on lexical development. The session focused on how teachers can benefit from the potential of AI given...

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More activities to revise language in class at low levels

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Beginners & Low levels, Classroom Activities, Lesson planning, Revision, Teaching lexically. 4 Comments on More activities to revise language in class at low levels

Why do activities to revise language in class? Teachers sometimes see class time as only for ‘new’ input. Revision is for students to do at home. I understand that idea. It also depends a bit how long your class is. If you have one 50 or 60-minute class a week, maybe that makes some sense. And students do have to take some responsibility, right? Ultimately, languages are truly learnt and certainly become more ‘real’ when students study and use the language outside class. But then many students set aside 3 or 4 hours of their week to do a class, so expecting a huge amount extra is not...

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Low level activities to revise vocabulary: what to choose

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Beginners & Low levels, Classroom Activities, Core Principles, Lexis, Teaching lexically, Vocabulary Choice. 4 Comments on Low level activities to revise vocabulary: what to choose

To learn words students need to recall and use them multiple times, so it is good to have activities to revise vocabulary in class. In this post I look at choosing items to revise and what difference low levels makes on this and the tasks we do. Not just vocabulary The first thing to say is that I think we should encourage students to think that when they revise vocabulary they also revise grammar. This is particularly true at the lowest levels where so many words are what might be described as grammar words and others have a an overall conceptual meaning that allows for a huge...

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