The recent development of ChatGPT and other AI systems promise to revolutionize the production of teaching materials for the language classroom. These AI systems have the ability to produce sophisticated and focussed outputs ideal for an unlimited number of classroom activities.
Better understanding of effective prompts (a phrase used as input to the AI tool) will help the language instructor utilize such systems in the classroom. Here we investigated what makes an effective prompt through the construction of a well-formed premise or story thus providing a guideline for use of AI systems. Ineffective prompts can be attributed to the failure of 'human imagination', and thus we further investigated prompts that are outside the box and do not follow standard human thought processes.
We will also introduce a collaboration platform where language instructors can share effective ChatGPT outputs/prompts for applications in their teaching materials.