If you want to boost your skills in using AI in language learning and teaching, this is the perfect place to get started.
The free tools and resources below have been specially selected to help you:
- develop awareness of different AI applications and tools, and how they can be used to help you with planning and managing lessons, assessment and supporting learning and your learners' needs
- improve your learners' understanding of what AI is and how it can enhance their language learning, as well as encouraging them to think critically about the limitations of AI
- consider the ethical issues surrounding AI, including bias, inclusion, equality, privacy and copyright. Help your learners develop their critical digital literacy and consider these issues in their own use of AI both in and outside the classroom.
There is no set order for the resources below. Choose what to do according to the time you have and the topics that are most interesting for you.
- Webinar (60 minutes)
In this webinar, Joe Dale demonstrates the role of generative AI in lesson planning, assessment and inclusive practices. You see how AI can create written records of spoken lectures and discussions, which can then be made into personalised assessments. Additionally, Joe explores how AI can support pronunciation and conversation practice and looks at generating differentiated reading materials. Finally, the session covers how AI can create bespoke images and enhance image accessibility for all learners.
- Resource pack: AI activities and resources for English language teachers (60+ minutes)
This resource pack equips English language teachers with a toolkit to integrate AI-based activities into both classroom instruction and continuing professional development (CPD). Packed full of practical ideas, it will help you to create classroom activities using AI, personalise your teaching materials, and make assessment and planning easier.
Read more about it and download the full resource pack.
- Article: Getting started with AI in the language classroom (10 minutes)
Do you want to start using AI with your learners but you're not sure how? This article by Suzanne Mordue gives practical tips and tools to help you introduce AI tools into your classes.
- Article: Generative AI and the language classroom (10 minutes)
In this article Nik Peachey asks what we need to know about AI and looks at the challenges and benefits it offers for language teaching.
- Podcast: What is the impact of artificial intelligence on English language teaching? (35 minutes)
Chris and We'am talk to Svetlana Kandybovich and Raquel Ribeiro about what AI is and its pros and cons for language teaching. We also explore some practical tips about how to integrate AI into our classes and help learners develop their AI literacy. Listen to the full episode here:
- Panel discussion: How are teachers using AI tools? (50 minutes)
Watch three expert teachers showing you how they use AI in their classes. Learn how AI tools can help you with planning, how AI can be used for descriptive writing activities and how AI can help you adopt a flipped learning approach.
As you watch our panel discussion, make notes: which of these ideas would work best with your classes, and why?
After watching the webinar, share your answer to the discussion question in the comments section below.
If you watch the recording and comment on it, we'll be happy to send you the link to an attendance certificate for the session.
- Lesson plans (45–60 minutes)
My AI teacher
This A2-level lesson looks at how AI can be used by learners to help develop the level of their English. Learners will learn how to use two different AI prompts to help them practise their English.
My AI teacher teaching materials
What is AI?
In this lesson, B1-level learners will find out more about different types of AI and discuss how it might change their lives in the future.
What is AI? teaching materials
The risks and benefits of AI
In this B2-level lesson, learners discuss the benefits and risks of AI for society in general, as well as for learning English. Learners will develop vocabulary skills, practise listening and take part in a discussion.
The risks and benefits of AI teaching materials
AI and ethics in education
In this lesson, C1-level learners will discuss the use of AI in education and explore some of the ethical issues that it brings up. They will also create a set of guidelines for the ethical use of AI in education.
AI and ethics in education teaching materials
Which of these ideas will you apply to your day-to-day teaching?