The day the essays started sounding . . . identical
Last month, one of my in-service teachers handed me a draft email that was, on paper, excellent. The grammar was tidy. The tone was polite. The structure was textbook perfect. And yet, it sounded like nobody. No warmth, no specific situation, no sense of the person writing it. When I asked, the teacher smiled and said, ‘I used a chatbot. I just changed a few words’.
That moment is becoming familiar in ELT. Generative AI (GenAI) can draft almost any text in seconds, and our learners know it. The question is no . . .
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