Facilitating text comprehension through a vocabulary list

Intended Users:

Teaching Staff

Academic Context:

Reading Scholarly Texts Developing Language Skills

Teaching & Learning Purpose:

Building Foundational Understanding

HUL Teaching Trail:

Task Design

Prompt Function:

Create Tasks and Learning Materials

Author:

Gunda Mohr

Tested with:

GPT-4.1

Use Case

Educators create a subject-based reference aid for required reading in English without replacing the original text with a translation. The educator specifies the subject area, receives an alphabetical English–German list of key terms and hands it out together with the text. The list is not derived from the specific reading but from the subject area given. Note: Check whether the terms actually needed for that text are included. Check the translations as well – with technical terms in particular, chatbot translations often diverge from established usage in the field.

Example Prompt

Please create an English–German vocabulary list for the 50 most important terms in higher education teaching.

The result should be in table form and alphabetically sorted.