Centaur ELT: Learning a Language

‍Centaur ELT: Learning a Language

This series is an extension of my deep dive article, AI: The State of Play in Language Teaching in 2024.

If you want to find out more about the AI terms I use below including Large Language Models — and no I don't mean plus-sized models who like to study languages —then the ‘State of Play’ article is definitely for you.

In my research for the article above, Ethan Mollick advised you to spend at least ten hours using AI in your day-to-day tasks. He says:

Just use it and see where it takes you.

So, that's what I'm doing.

For the rest of the year, I'm immersing myself in the 'jagged frontier' of ELT.  I hope my observations help you figure out when AI can enhance your teaching and when you might want to steer clear of it.

In this episode I compare language learning in the past to language learning now. To illustrate the differences, I tell a story about trying to find out the meaning of some lyrics from a song in Thai.