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ELT and AI for Good

philipjkerr

Cambridge publishes a series of short academic titles called ‘Elements’. There are dozens of them and, for a few weeks only after publication, they can be freely downloaded in pdf format. They vary in quality. Some are very useful. For others, the quality is commensurate with the price you pay....

Taking AI literacy seriously

philipjkerr

English language teacher education, says the British Council (Edmett et al. 2024: 21), ‘must include a focus on AI literacy’ and ‘teachers also need to develop their learners AI literacy’. This report is referring to Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT), the focus of my discussion here. There are...

5 top tips for using ChatGPT in language teaching

philipjkerr

The July 2024 edition of ELT Journal (78 / 3) contains an article entitled ‘ChatGPT in ELT: disruptor? Or well-trained teaching assistant?’ (Ahn et al., 2024). It aims to ‘contribute to the growing discourse on technology integration in ELT and offers practical recommendations for creating a...