The rapid advancement of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek undeniably raises important questions about university education and assessment. However, the proposed solution of reverting to traditional, invigilated, pen-and-paper exams and placing the responsibility on students to use AI “judiciously and responsibly” fails to address the deeper, structural challenges at play. Instead ofContinueContinue reading “Learning and/with AI”
Author Archives: Marisa Constantinides
V is for Vocabulary Acquisition
Vocabulary Acquisition Learning vocabulary in large quantities remains a problem in the second or foreign language classroom. The advice on how many words to teach in each lesson varies, from 5 to 10 or 12. Yet, students need masses and masses of it to make progress – it’s not the grammar that makes theContinueContinue reading “V is for Vocabulary Acquisition”
Task Based Language Teaching or Lexical Approach?
Task Based Language Teaching is a topic discussed on all TEFL courses and, especially on the Cambridge DELTA course, we expect to see it in action, at least beyond the beginner level. I have taken the liberty of copy-pasting the site introduction to the site which is not visible from the front page of theContinueContinue reading “Task Based Language Teaching or Lexical Approach?”
Cambridge DELTA Diploma – more accessible than ever before
The Cambridge DELTA Diploma Online We started offering the Cambridge DELTA online with live synchronous sessions in 2014 or so and, of course, as a result, acquired a huge amount of experience about how to deliver course content and support this course well before Zoom became the thing….. It is true that now you canContinueContinue reading “Cambridge DELTA Diploma – more accessible than ever before”
A is for Advance Organisers
Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts were just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they could analyse and decipher them, would be able to arrive at the overall meaning of the text. But, is this what happensContinueContinue reading “A is for Advance Organisers”