Hello,
It is Yannick Lyons from The Teaching Twin Newsletter.
If you teach students whose first language is not the language of instruction, you have likely noticed a consistent pattern.
Some students follow explanations easily. Others struggle, not because the material is too difficult, but because language slows their ability to process what you are saying in real time.
When that happens, students fall behind quietly. They ask fewer questions. They disengage because language creates friction at the moment they need clarity the most.
Many instructors try to solve it after the fact. Extra office hours. Referrals to language support. Suggestions to rewatch lectures using translation tools.
Those approaches help, but they also create two learning experiences inside the same course. Students who understand instruction in real time move forward. Others spend additional hours translating and reconstructing explanations just to catch up.
There is a more sustainable option, and it starts with a simple shift.
Language access can be designed into lesson delivery itself.
AI avatars make this possible in a practical way.
An AI avatar allows you to record an explanation once and deliver that same explanation in multiple languages. Your pacing, framing, and instructional judgment stay intact. What changes is the language students hear.
Example of an AI Avatar We Created Using Multiple Languages
Here is the core idea instructors find most useful.
You write the explanation once
Your AI avatar delivers that explanation in native + additional languages
Students hear the lesson in the language they understand best
This avoids explaining the same thing multiple times. It avoids asking students to translate on their own. And it preserves instructional quality.
When those explanations are accessible in multiple languages, something important happens.
Students arrive at office hours having already understood the material. Questions become more focused. Discussion moves to nuance instead of basic clarification. Your live time becomes more effective because it is not spent re explaining what students could not follow the first time.
Keep in mind: This does not reduce instructor authority. You still decide what is taught, how it is sequenced, and how learning is evaluated. What you delegate is the time bound task of delivering the same explanation multiple times.
If you want to walk through how this might apply to your specific course structure, reply and let me know.
Best,
Yannick
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