Last Thursday I had the pleasure of addressing about 250 participants in a workshop about how students can get feedback on their speaking whenever they use Turboscribe to record themslves.
I started off using a DirectPoll survey to find out whether participants were equiped to participate in the workshop. Only 120 of the 250 people present responded.
So I suggested the people who hadn't got an account with Turboscribe.ai should get one as soon as possible.
Fortunately, nearly everyone had the ChatGPT app on their phone. I explained that the app was much better than the browser version when it comes to listening to texts read aloud unless they were using the Edge browser, which also allows you to select text and ask for it to be read aloud.
I explained that anyone using their phone to follow the webinar might have problems using the same device to also record themselves and use ChatGPT.
The question I didn't ask, and regret not asking was whether participants had a QR code reader or not, but of course that would only have worked if someone had put the short URL in the chat.
Nearly two hours later I asked participants to evaluate the ideas I had been putting forward and they had been using as if they were students. This time there were only 32 responses, but they were overwhelmingly positive:
An improved 9-step prompt
Remove timestamps.
Decide the level on GSE and CEFR (+ for half bands) but don't reveal it.
After each of the steps 1 to 9, wait for me to say "next."
Write in continuous prose.
Answer questions at the learner's level.
Steps:
1 Identify errors in bold and enclose them in brackets
2 Correct errors, showing corrections in bold next to (errors)
3 Write the corrected version without mistakes
4 Rewrite half a CEFR level up from the version in step 3 but more logically structured, with better cohesion, more complex grammar, richer and more idiomatic vocab, and more details, marking changes as in step 2
5 Write the changed version
6 Rewrite one CEFR level up from the version in step 5, improving as in step 4, marking changes as in step 2.
7 Write the changed version
8 Rewrite one level up from the version in step 7, more complex, even better linked, even more detailed, even more logically structured, marking changes as in step 2
9 Write the changed version
Here is a QR code and short URL that link to the prompt so that you can use any slight improvments I make in the future.
I suggested that teachers and even learners could adapt the prompt to suit their needs. For example, leaners aiming to improve their IELTS speaking scores could ask ChatGPT to use this scale rather than the GSE and CEFR scales. I reminded everyone that there is a limit of 953 characters including spaces when making changes to the Custom Prompt to be pasted into Turboscribe.ai