Empowering GCSE Language Teaching with AI

Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the New GCSE is a practical face-to-face workshop designed for modern language educators seeking to integrate AI into their classroom practice. Explore the transformative role of AI and discover how it can support listening, speaking, reading, and writing in line with the new GCSE specifications. See how AI can reduce workload, increase creativity, and bring the wow factor to your teaching.

Introduction

• What AI is (and what it isn’t) for teachers and learners.
• Responsible use of AI in education: bias (WEIRD mnemonic), inaccuracies and hallucinations, safeguarding, and why student data must never be shared.
• Interactive DirectPoll activity: “How AI savvy are you?”

Listening

• Creating GCSE-ready listening worksheets from YouTube clips with QR codes.
• Using Turboscribe for accurate transcripts and dictation to provide feedback on pronunciation.
• Introducing Suno: generating songs from GCSE vocabulary lists (e.g. food and drink from the “Healthy Living and Lifestyle” theme) for memorable listening practice.

Speaking

• Generating role-play dialogues from Kate Languages GCSE vocabulary lists using ChatGPT.
• Checking alignment with AQA/Edexcel lists in MultilingProfiler.
• Modelling authentic speech with Google AI Studio, providing natural voices for students to hear and practise.

Reading

• Creating GCSE-aligned short texts with AI.
• Turning texts into illustrated Gemini Storybooks to scaffold comprehension and support accessibility.
• Exploring how AI can differentiate texts instantly to meet the needs of all learners with Diffit.

Writing & Assessment

• Transforming texts into Google Quizzes and Microsoft Forms in seconds to streamline assessment.

Conclusion and Q&A

• Recap of key tools and workflows for supporting the new GCSE.
• Hands-on reflection and sharing: how colleagues can adapt tools to their contexts.
• Opportunity to ask questions and explore practical next steps.

Registrants will receive the presentation and links to all the resources shared. Don’t miss this chance to gain time-saving strategies and wow-factor activities that will inspire your students and reduce your workload.

Feel free to bring a laptop with you so you can explore the tools hands-on and try out the ideas during the workshop.

Why not start 2026 with some professional development that aligns directly with the new GCSE? Don’t miss out — register today!

Presenter’s bio:

Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant from the UK who works with a range of organisations such as Network for Languages, ALL, The British Council, the BBC, Skype, Microsoft and The Guardian. He was host of the TES MFL forum for six years, former SSAT Languages Lead Practitioner, a regular conference speaker and recognised expert on technology and language learning. He has spoken at conferences and run training courses in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, the Far East and Australasia. He was a member of the Ministerial Steering Group on languages for the UK coalition government and advised on the Linguanet Worldwide project for The Language Company. He created ICT activities for the new Institut Français, ALL and Network for Languages Primary French Project Niveau Bleu, Blanc and Rouge courses and was short-listed for a NAACE Impact Award in 2013 too. Joe supported the Erasmus Plus project Conflict to Cooperation with 5 European countries and the Erasmus Plus Project Learning to think and live outside the box. He recently organised and co-hosted a 10 part series of webinars Saturday Tech-Talk in collaboration with the British Council in Indonesia and iTELL and worked on the Nusantara Go project for the British Council in Indonesia and PearTree Languages in 2022. He also worked on the Supporting Schools Reform in Algeria project through the British Council 2019-2020. He is currently working on the Stories on the Move project with the University of Reading and is the AI Project Lead for the National Consortium for Languages Education. He was recently described in a Guardian article as an 'MFL guru' and 'the man behind the #mfltwitterati.'. Joe’s new Facebook group ‘Language Teaching with AI already has over 6000 members!