Duolingo’s New Chess Feature: A Great Opportunity for CLIL!
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuolingo's new Chess feature sadly misses an opportunity to give you authenticity of purpose in your language study.
AI and Fake News: The Authenticity Algorithm
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The Multiplying Self: Experience, Interpretation, and the Melting of Authenticity in a Post-Truth Era
Introduction: The Experience Multiplier in Digital and Real Worlds In [...]
Art and AI: We Don’t Produce Slop, We Produce Chop
Reading Time: 4 minutesChatGPT is mainly built in Python. Fitting, then, that like a python it coils around you. But instead of constricting, it empowers.
Do you Still Need to Study English now that we have AI?
Open Campus Lecture: Authenticity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) A demo [...]
Risking authenticity: Energy Return on Investment in Language Teaching
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The smart way to use Smartphones in the language classroom
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Authenticity 2.0
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs language use today moves increasingly into digital fora - social media, social networking and so on, accompanied by an internationalisation of the language most associated with the Internet, English, the concept of 'authenticity' in the context of language samples and language use becomes ever more evasive.
Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis book examines the concept of authentic English in today’s world, where cultures are in constant interaction and the English language works as a binding agent for many cross-cultural exchanges. It offers a comprehensive review of decades of debate around authenticity in language teaching and learning and attempts to synthesise the complexities by presenting them as a continuum.
JALT CALL 2015 Conference – Session Summary
Reading Time: 2 minutesSession slides for the Japan Association of Language Teachers Computer Aided Language Learning Special Interest Group conference at Kyushu Sangyo University June 5-7 2015
