Prepare with a purpose.
Review the assigned material and rehearse useful language. Supported AI practice can help you try an activity again; bring confusing feedback to your coach.
American Language Institute
Practice independently. Use it together.
ALI connects AI-supported practice, coach-led interaction and reflection around one communication goal.
Participate with your cohort.
Your coach introduces a task, models useful language and creates opportunities to exchange meaning. Learners listen, respond and ask follow-up questions. The session centers on active use.
Reflect and retry.
Choose a specific improvement from the feedback. Try the task again, then revisit the skill later. Completing an activity is one signal; the language you can use is another.
Try an example.
Introduce yourself to a new colleague. Say what you do and ask about their work.
“Hi, I’m ___. I work in ___. I help with ___. What are you working on?”
Try it without reading. Add one detail. Then ask a follow-up question.
This is an illustrative task, not a live AI assessment or a recording of a class.
Why return to a skill?
Research supports distributing practice over time and using corrective feedback in second-language learning. These principles inform ALI’s design; they do not establish an ALI-specific outcome guarantee.
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