Today, AI and digital dictionaries offer exciting opportunities to stimulate student vocabulary acquisition through creative expression. To put some of these matters into a classroom context, the author created an activity for participants at the AICLU Language Instructors conference in Trieste, Italy in November 2024. The activity was conducted using participants’ own digital devices, primarily smartphones, followed by personal tablets or PCs, connected to the internet. Using imaginative input, participants experienced first-hand how vocabulary acquisition can happen in a playful and engaging manner.
