Month: October 2023

Challenging chats: Exploring AI Literacy on a Pre-sessional Course

Posted on by Martha Partridge, Liming Chen, Yen-En Kuo, Nattanan Hamapongnitinan and Haoyuan Huang

 Introduction

This article was co-written by four international post-graduate students – Natt, Haoyuan, Yen-En, and Liming – and their pre-sessional teacher, Martha. It presents the students’ evolving perspectives on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT. They share their journey from casual engagement with AI to recognizing its value as a study aid. The article also highlights the teacher’s research project, which aimed to understand how to develop the students’ AI literacy on their 2023 pre-sessional course. (more…)

Global Citizen Photo Diary in EAP

Posted on by Jo Kukuczka and Donna Mac Lean

Research reflections from the CALD PG Pre-sessional and IFP Text Response programmes

by Jo Kukuczka (Doctoral Student, Open University) & Donna MacLean (EAP Tutor, CALD, University of Bristol)

This blog post reflects on the fruits of our research and teaching collaboration across boundaries, and we don’t just mean institutional boundaries. The pedagogical research we report on here took place in the post-pandemic academic year of 2022/2023, the year disrupted by ongoing national HEI industrial action and the cost-of-living crisis affecting all involved. Only the support and dedication of CALD leadership and pre-sessional and IFP Text Response teams and students made this intervention possible under such circumstances, and ultimately enabled closer collaboration between the researcher (Jo) and the teacher (Donna) leading to this reflection. Read on to hear our story.  (more…)