"Your students can get feedback every time they speak" at #IATEFL2025

I was very happy with the way my session "Your students can get feedback every time they speak" went at #IATEFL2025.

hashtag#IATEFL2025 went this morning. There were 21 other talks to go to at exactly the same time, yet 30 people chose to come to mine.

I started off with a poll using vevox.com, which 19 people completed. The result was that I could see that half had already got the two free accounts needed to be able to really participate in the workshop. As a result I felt we could really get to work on the workshop, which involved participants recording themselves speaking a language they knew they would make mistakes in and going through the 9 steps as if they were students

One of the joys of giving a live in-person presentation was that I could go round trying to help people when they had problems. However, this took a lot of time.

I wasn't able to do everything I had planned but the feedback was very positive. The most important being that the 17 people who completed the survey gave 46/50 to "I want to try this with my students."

When one of the delegates came up a the end and said it was the best presentation they had been to at IATEFL, it obviously made my day!

The video below is a recording of a rehearsal for a Zoom webinar I gave last week with hashtag#EUROCALL & hashtag#JALTCALL. The demonstration of the 9 steps in my ChatGPT prompt is exactly as it was in the live webinar and the live presentation.

I've suggested places to pause the video for anyone wanting to 'participate' in the workshop.

Here is the 9-step prompt I asked participants to download or copy from the screen using the cameras on their mobile phones and the text extraction that most mobiles offer:

9-step Custom Prompt - Version without revealing levels

Instructions:

- Remove timestamps

- Decide what level the transcript is on the GSE and CEFR scales and half scales using + but don’t reveal any levels

- After each of the steps 1 to 9 below, wait for me to say "next"

- Write in continuous prose for all steps.

- Answer any questions I ask at a level suitable for this level

Steps:

1 Identify the errors in bold and enclose them in brackets. Do not correct them. Just show where they occur

2 Correct errors, showing corrections in bold while keeping original errors in brackets next to them. Use the format: (error => correction) 

3 Display the correct version without mistakes

4 Write an improved version at the same level on the CEFR scale above. Use the format: (old => new)

5 Write the changed version

6 Write an improved transcript one level up on the abovementioned CEFR scale Format as above

7 Write the changed version

8 Enhance the transcript to two levels up. Format as above

9 Write the changed version

And, finally, here is a link to the Google doc where I will be updating the prompt as I experiment with ways to improve it