Speaker
Description
In this talk, I will show language teachers how easy it is to create language teaching and learning apps that target specific language learning issues, or areas for improvement, that your learners may have. Creating materials with AI is not new, but Vibe Coding is. Vibe coding is using an AI app to build other apps when the builder has no programming skills. I will demonstrate my Dictaflow app, explain how it can be integrated into any intensive listening or reading lesson, explain the pedagogy behind it, how I built it and how we trained students on the MATESOL at Manchester Metropolitan University to become vibe coding app builders themselves. If I can do it, you can do it.
Biography
Dr Anthony Picot is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds a PhD (Applied Linguistics), Trinity TESOL Cert, Diploma in ELT and an MEd in ELT and Ed Tech.
He has worked with all levels and ages of learners and has taught English and trained teachers in Germany, Thailand, Japan and UK. He has taught General English, Business English, EAP and ESP. From 1997, he worked in a language school in South Thailand and became a Cambridge Examiner before becoming the Head of English at an International School there. He moved to a university in Japan for two years where he led the Internet Research Project.
He now works at Manchester Metropolitan University as the Course Director on the Trinity TESOL Certificate (undergraduate) course and as and as Programme Leader for the MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics, as well as module leader for several UG and PG TESOL modules.
He the Chair of the Northern Association of Teachers of English to Other Learners (NATESOL), a charity set up to provide Continuing Professional Development initially at a regional level, but now at a global one. He has presented at various national and international conferences on a variety of TESOL related subjects.
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