ACE-CL-08BeginnerTier 2 · Practical
AI for ESL Professionals: English in the Workplace
Build confidence using English at work with AI support for messages, meetings, vocabulary, and everyday communication.
What you’ll explore
- Use AI as an always-available English language partner in three distinct roles — proofreader, teacher and practice partner — and explain why asking AI to explain a correction builds lasting skill in a way that simply accepting a fixed sentence never does
- Apply AI to check professional emails for the five most common ESL error patterns in business English, and separately for tone and idiom appropriateness, before sending
- Apply AI to draft and structure longer written communication (reports and messages) and to decode workplace jargon and unwritten workplace-culture concepts precisely rather than approximately
- Apply AI to prepare confidently for meetings and presentations — generating likely questions, rehearsing responses out loud, and calibrating directness and tone for Australian workplace cultural norms
- Use AI to rehearse genuinely difficult spoken workplace conversations before they happen, building real confidence rather than improvising under pressure
- Design and document a personal, sustainable AI English improvement routine — a specific daily habit, a tracked pattern, and a concrete three-month measure of progress — that avoids the over-reliance risk of using AI to fix English without ever building the underlying skill
Course outline
01AI as Your English Language Partner: Learning From Corrections, Not Just Accepting Them60 min
02AI for Professional Email: Grammar, Tone and Getting It Right Before You Send60 min
03AI for Reports, Workplace Jargon & Building Your Professional Vocabulary60 min
04AI for Meetings & Presentations: Preparation, Practice and Cultural Nuance60 min
05Building Confidence & Your Ongoing AI English System60 min
Who it’s for
Non-native English speakers using English professionally who want AI to build genuine confidence and skill, not just cleaner one-off output Professionals at any career stage who want a practical, respectful system for improving workplace written and spoken English without a return to formal language study Managers and team leads who want to support ESL colleagues with a concrete, positive framework — this course works equally well attended by ESL professionals themselves or alongside supportive colleagues and managers