
Advancing Agency in Language Education
SSHRC-funded project exploring language teachers’ agency through plurilingual, action-oriented, and technology-mediated approaches.
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The AALE Toolkit 🛠️🧠

On the Spotlight 🔦
Start exploring our Toolkit by checking some of the resources developed by the AALE team:
AI Prompts in Plurilingual, AoA Teaching
Large Language Models (LLMs) learn to generate text from extensive self-training and specific data, but their output requires evaluation….
AI Prompts for Plurilingual Pedagogy
An effective AI prompt is one that produces relevant, accurate and contextually appropriate outputs aligned with the input (the prompt)……
Understanding AI Prompts
AI prompts are short written instructions/questions that guide a generative AI tool (or large language model) to generate a response……
AoA, CLT, & TBLT: Tasks
There is a logical progression from CLT through TBLT to the AoA apart from the chronology of their development….
Introduction to Affordances
Affordances refer to meaningful ways of interacting with the environment through perception-in-action (Van Lier, 2002)….
Introduction to Plurilingualism
Plurilingualism is a key concept in language education that highlights the dynamic linguistic repertoire of individual learners…
Critically Assessing Digital Affordances
Meaningful integration of new digital tools demands a critical eye and reflective practice……
Affordances in Digital Technology
Affordance is the potential that teachers perceive in a particular technology tool that will support learning and teaching activities……
Assessment in Practice
Assessment is best seen as a cyclical process that guides learners towards success, as shown in the figure below….
