Level 5 Award in Teaching Other Subjects in English (CLIL)

We take malpractice very seriously at Gatehouse Awards. Malpractice can take different forms:

• Plagiarism is copying from another source and presenting this work as your own. This can include copying from books, websites and other online sources. Copying from the example assignment, or copying chunks of text from the course itself, are also plagiarism.
• Collusion is collaborating with or copying from another candidate on the same course, producing the same assignment as another candidate, or including chunks of text from another candidate’s assignment in your own.
• Misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is attempting to copy or paraphrase whole chunks of AI generated content, use AI to complete sections of an assignment, or failure to reference use of AI.

If you are found to have committed any of the above, then you may be disqualified from the course.

Avoiding malpractice

You should never copy another student’s assignment; this is always malpractice and has serious consequences. However, you are expected and encouraged to do research for your assignment, look at books, websites and journals to support your ideas and help build your assignment, this is part of the learning process! Just remember that these resources should be helping to shape your ideas and your writing, don’t just copy and paste things into your assignment.

This is an academic assignment, and so you should include academic references for the sources (books, journals, websites and blogs) that you use.

What is referencing?

If you’re new to referencing (also known as “citation”) it can seem quite confusing, but it’s fairly simple. For example, imagine you’re planning a lesson for a group of French students. It's a good idea to think about potential difficulties your students might have with the language, so you may want to do some research about French learners of English. You would look at a website or book for help, then this website or book should be referenced in your bibliography. Or maybe you want to use a gap fill activity that you found on a teaching materials website; you would need to reference that website in your bibliography. If you’re still a bit unclear on referencing, the video at the bottom is a helpful guide (they use the word “citation”). To make things easier when referencing, you can use this website to generate the reference for you, and then you can simply copy it into your bibliography.

Using AI

The world of technology and research is changing, and AI platforms can be a great tool when used appropriately. However, they should be used as research tools, not to write your assignment for you. For example, a good use of AI could be to ask for suggestions of communicative games to practice a grammar point. Misuse of AI would be trying to get a platform to write your assignment for you (it also doesn’t work very well for these kinds of tasks!) If you want to use AI as a research tool, just remember to include a reference and the question or prompt that you searched in your bibliography e.g. “What are some good warmers for a lesson about climate change?” Chat GPT 3.5 (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) Accessed 18.09.2023