1. There’s a TeachingEnglish webinar next Tuesday, 10^th December, at 12.00 UK time withFiona Copland & Sue Garton on English as a school subject: learning effective practices from primary-sector English language teachers in the global south https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/english-school-subject-learning-effective

Here’s their blurb: Drawing on their collaborative research project with academics, teacher educators, teachers and children in Malawi, Mexico, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh Dr Fiona Copland, Head of the School of Education, Learning and Communication Sciences, University of Warwick and Sue Garton, Professor of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at Aston University, discuss barriers and solutions to learning English in the four contexts. Referencing video content and teacher education materials created from real classroom situations they examine strategies for repositioning students and teachers as emergent bilinguals rather than weak language learners and highlight associated approaches to and practices in teaching English more effectively in the primary school sector.

PDF below of the report by Fiona and Sue on which this event is based.

You’ll find the recording of the previous event in this series, Supporting teacher well-being: Connecting, learning and contributing, with Cristiana Osan here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/supporting-teacher-well-being-connecting

2. First of three on AI: Nik Peachey’s great handbook for the British Council, AI activities and resources for English language teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/resource-books/ai-activities-and-resources-english-language-teachers

PDF below.

3. The ELTons Festival of Innovation the other week included a lively debate on AI, ably chaired by Neenaz Ichaporia, The great AI debate: a force for good in language education? https://youtu.be/kVKyOsQc0T0

4. A short blog post on AI by Michelle Meadows for the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment (OUCEA), How to encourage academic integrity in the age of generative AI https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oucea/news/how-to-encourage-academic-integrity-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

If assessment’s your thing, you’ll find useful OUCEA’s series of videos on the ‘central issues in assessment’ https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oucea/project/assessment-materials-online/

5. And, finally, brain rot, also from Oxford https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/