Jingyi's ELT blog

Hello again, welcome to my blog! Today we are going to talk about one of the most popular arguments of this moment – the artificial intelligence (AI).   Now that the development of AI is inevitable, we as language teachers need to embrace and change with it. How can AI help our teaching and how can we influence our students to have the correct understanding of AI? I will use ChatGPT as an example to discuss what AI can bring to our teaching. Surely this isn't the first time we've discussed how AI has changed language education. In week 6 I introduced you to Yoodli , a website that uses AI to help users practice speaking. It can listen all the time, as well as give instant feedback, making it a great convenience for many users with speaking practice needs. Today we will no longer limit our range to speaking, but to the impact that AI has brought to English language learning and teaching in general: ChatGPT .   l   What is ChatGPT? It likes an online chat box,...

  Welcome back! This week we are going to talk about blended learning! Also introducing a very useful teaching website: TED-ed. l   What is 'blended learning'? According to Mizza & Rubio (2020), blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom and online learning resource. By doing so, it can bring together the strengths of the traditional classroom and the rich online teaching resources to form a more efficient way of learning. Especially for language teaching, which requires the constant updates of target language resources. As technology develops, this type of teaching is becoming more and more popular.   l   TED-ed I think most of you have heard of TED talk, maybe some of you use it as self-learning tool. But today, let me demonstrate a branch of TED talk. The TED ed, a website especially builds for worldwide educators. Unlike TED talk, which has a higher language requirement for listeners TED-ed is designed speci...