The sudden pivot to teaching in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has necessitated significant changes to the way instructors approach teaching. As AI tools flood the educational sphere, classroom instruction must accommodate the availability of these many and various tools. In some cases, AI tools are embraced as innovative means of gamification, interactivity, and efficiency; in other...
Corpus technology has been noted as a facilitative tool in data-driven learning (DDL) due to its advanced search capabilities and access to vast linguistic databases. Despite its potential, many teachers shy away from direct corpus use, which involves teacher- and learner-corpus interaction. Based on teacher and learner feedback, this is due to the overwhelming amount of corpus data and...
To address the long-standing challenge facing traditional automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems in assessing higher-order thinking, this study built an AWE system for scoring argumentative essays by finetuning the GPT-3.5 Large Language Model and compared the system's effectiveness with that of the non-finetuned GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 base models, or "vanilla" models, using zero-shot prompting...
In Europe, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is conducted by non-native English-speaking content specialists who teach their academic discipline in English. This ‘hard’ version of CLIL has been considered difficult to implement at Japanese universities as many content specialists lack the pedagogical skills and teacher training. One way to bridge these difficulties, and a notion...
Targeted at EFL professionals tasked with conference management, this interactive presentation outlines a streamlined, tested approach to deploying and successfully managing a call for papers on the Indico conference management platform. From initial setup to the successful execution of each stage of a CfP, participants will learn how to leverage Indico’s comprehensive suite of tools. The...
This pilot study examines the efficacy of an adaptive CLIL science reading platform (ACSRP) for facilitating personalized learning among fifth graders in an after-school International Education program in Taiwan. Following the design-based research paradigm, which consists of grounding, conjecturing, iterating, and reflecting (Hoadley & Campos, 2022), the researchers first analyzed learning...
As the landscape of generative AI continues to evolve, educators have been exploring its potential applications in teaching, especially its ability to generate presentations and visual aids for teaching. This workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to delve into the practical aspects of leveraging various AI platforms and tools to generate images and presentations. Through hands-on...
The use of automated writing evaluation (AWE) in second language (L2) writing contexts has increased dramatically, as evidenced by the large body of research published on the topic over the past decade (e.g., Li, 2021; Link et al., 2022; Zhang, 2020). Considering this, several systematic reviews on AWE have been published (Ding & Zou, 2023; Ngo et al., 2022; Zhai & Ma, 2022). Nevertheless,...
