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Workshop Classroom application of CALL

Using AI to make better listening materials for students at any level

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Listening materials have long been the hardest for teachers to create or otherwise provide for their students. Teachers usually depend on textbooks, scour the internet or, perhaps more rarely, spend hours creating the listening activities that their students need (Rost, 2024, Alrawashdeh & Al-zayed 2017, Nemtchinova, 2020). This workshop gives teachers a chance to learn first hand how to use available AI apps and platforms to create listening materials from scratch that will be able to be adjusted and improved to fit the needs of their learners. In this workshop we will take a few topics, use AI to generate the scripts we need, learn to adjust the content to fit different learner needs, such as complexity, vocabulary content, delivery speed and others, to create a short listening practice for students to use to improve their listening comprehension. All software used for this workshop is freely available and will be limited to creating materials with one speaker but it provides an opportunity for teachers to learn the basics of creating listening materials that participants can then apply and improve upon as more and more advanced software becomes available.