Mat Schulze
@matschulze.bsky.social
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Linguist, professor, blogger, manifestor, ...
https://PantaRhei.press/mat
I am starting a mini-series on Beyond AI. It's an autoethnographic study: I am looking at my own learning about artificial intelligence and language learning, zooming in on my own language learning and teacher training, to help make sense of current developments with GenAI.
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Beyond AI (1): Looking back to move forward
We are starting with the Akan[1] word Sankofa, which means âto return, go, and getâ and symbolizes the taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present to make the future better through the benevolent use of knowledge (Wikipedia contributors, 2026). The concept of Sankofa has also been adopted in North America and elsewhere. In our context, understanding the past of language learning with technology, of language teaching methods and approaches, and of research and development in artificial intelligence (AI) helps language teachers to make sense of todayâs generative AI (GenAI) technologies and their impact on the future of language education, if we shape teacher education now.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/07/01/beyond-ai-1-look-back-to-move-forward/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
10 days ago
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The
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History Project was probably the biggest research project that I have coordinated: 126 interviewees (all German immigrants to Waterloo Region in Ontario, Canada), 23 interviewers, 32 interview transcribers, 14 research assistants, 23 chapter authors (many of them grad students at the time).
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The forgotten interview
Sometimes I forget things ... forget things I did ... forget I did something. Occasionally, I post videos and webpages that I found. Some of these resources, some of my memories have something to do with GenAI or AI in general, others don't. This one doesn't. It looks like a contradiction in terms: a written interview (which I completely forgot) on an…
https://pantarhei.press/2026/06/29/the-forgotten-interview/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 days ago
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Phil
went on an adventure. Looking for AI at
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OAILL podcast: TESOL goes AI
In this podcast episode, Phil tells Mat about his adventures at the TESOL 2026 Convention in Salt Lake City, March 24-27. Phil talked with exhibitors and attended as many AI-focused presentations, panels, and posters as he could to get a sense of how AI, especially GenAI, is being presented by and to professional English language teachers. Here I will just mention one presentation, about which Phil spoke highly:
https://pantarhei.press/2026/06/21/tesol-goes-ai/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
20 days ago
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Under discussion: two papers in the context of GenAI by Glenn Stockwell. "
Professional development and learner training
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Legal, affective, and policy dimensions of the AI ecosystem in language education
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OAILL podcast: AI and professional development according to Glenn
Finally ... Mat and Phil left their cocoon, you might say. In the first episodes of their podcast, they talked about their own work. Now they are venturing out. This is still on professional development in the context of GenAI, but now it is someone else's perspective. Phil and Mat talk to Glenn Stockwell about his book chapter on "
https://pantarhei.press/2026/06/13/ai-and-professional-development-according-to-glenn-stockwell/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
28 days ago
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Introducing Sustained Integrated Professional Development for GenAI and introducing episode 4 of our podcast "Opening AI for Language Learning"
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Welcome to Sustained Integrated Professional Development (SIPD) for GenAI
You are welcome. In 2025, Phil Hubbard and I wrote an open-access position paper on â what we call â Sustained Integrated Professional Development (SIPD) for GenAI. In that article, we outline ten knowledge and skill areas, which I also discussed here in the blog and about which we spoke in our podcast, and seven principles of SIPD.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/06/05/welcome-to-sustained-integrated-professional-development-sipd-for-genai/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 1 month ago
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Are GenAI tools like a jackhammer? Or like an electric car? Learning about GenAI ... also in the podcast "Opening AI for Language Learning" ... wherever you get your podcasts.
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GenAI â what do I need to learn?
Let's use two comparisons: 1 â a jackhammer; 2 â a modern electric car. So, if a GenAI tool is like a jackhammer, what would you do? It might be advisable to learn to use hammer and chisel first. And before that, just learn to use the hammer. Develop your skills so that you get done what needs doing and so that you don't injure yourself ...
https://pantarhei.press/2026/05/28/genai-what-do-i-need-to-learn/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 1 month ago
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We did this before "AI" and without "AI" The transcription of the interviews would have been quicker with "AI." Maybe. I find it interesting to look back, once in a while.
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The Oral History Project
That's what we called it. The Oral History Project. We recruited 126 immigrants to Canada from German-speaking central Europe, conducted hour-long interviews about their life, transcribed and annotated the entire corpus, and condensed their individual stories and the different histories into 14 book chapters. Schulze, Mathias, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach (Eds.) (2022) Germans of Waterloo Region
https://pantarhei.press/2026/05/20/the-oral-history-project/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Mat Schulze
CALICO - Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
about 2 months ago
Did you know that you can register for pre-conference workshops at
#CALICO2026
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I am working on re-writing this talk, which makes me think about the general impact of GenAOI technologies and tools on language education. It's game changer. Maybe even the rules and participants fo the game will change.
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Language Learning with GenAI: Bridging the gap OR Burning the bridge
What impact will Generative AI have on language learning? I talked about this for an hour last summer, using a personal angle. The methodology I employed is called 'autoethnographic study'. I began by constructing a narrative of my professional life as it pertains to language learning, teaching, and technology. I tried to pick the parts that informed and still inform my thinking about the rapidly evolving GenAI technologies.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/05/12/language-learning-with-genai-bridging-the-gap-or-burning-the-bridge/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 2 months ago
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Reflecting on the language side rather than the technology side ... what has been going on? Just asking the question(s). Where did all the languages go, when they left university?
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Ai, ai, ai, ⊠where did all the languages go?
By training, I am teacher of German and Russian. Starting in 1986 as a student teacher, I have taught German. First, to kids with German as their first language. Since 1991, to university students as their second language. When I started, I thought German would always be a university subject. It had not occured to me this could ever change. That worry came a few years later ...
https://pantarhei.press/2026/05/08/ai-ai-ai-where-did-all-the-languages-go/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
2 months ago
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Often thinking about AI means revisting older ideas, not forgetting what we used to know. Sankofa - looking back to look forward.
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Thinking about AI
Hey, Friend, Still thinking about AI. Every week, when I post here, when I work on a paper or a workshop for work, when I prepare for a podcast. The post below is a little over two years old, and I thought it might be interesting to repost it. Thinking about AI. This is something I have been doing a lot…
https://pantarhei.press/2026/05/02/thinking-about-ai-2/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
2 months ago
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Mat Schulze
Ekkehard Domning
2 months ago
Und dann fragen sie 2033 die KI: "Was hĂ€tten wir mit dem vielen Geld besser machen können?" Und die KI wird antworten: "Die Welt vor der Klimahölle, dem Artensterben und dem Faschismus bewahren! Aber dafĂŒr ist es jetzt zu spĂ€t."
www.wiwo.de/technologie/...
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KI-WettrĂŒsten: Tech-Riesen investieren Hunderte Milliarden
Tech-Konzerne sehen in KĂŒnstlicher Intelligenz eine einmalige Chance - und wollen einander nicht das Feld ĂŒberlassen. Die Folge sind beispiellose Investitionen in Rechenzentren.
https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/digitale-welt/gigantische-ausgaben-ki-wettruesten-tech-riesen-investieren-hunderte-milliarden/100221245.html?utm_medium=sm&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=standard-post&utm_campaign=standard&utm_source=Bluesky%3Futm_term%3Dne&utm_source=Bluesky
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What happened with AI in (computer-assisted) language learning before 2022? Is this relevant to what is happening now?
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Computer-assisted language learning and AI
Artificial intelligence (AI), in particular the areas of natural language processing and student modeling (Heift & Schulze, 2007; Schulze, 2008), have played a role in CALL â this sub-area is commonly referred to as Intelligent CALL or ICALL â for almost 50 years. For a small group of researchers, pedagogical issues of contingent corrective feedback and learner guidance and help were often at the center of attention.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/04/27/computer-assisted-language-learning-and-ai/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
2 months ago
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A short coincidental note on GenAI
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I did not know this about GenAI âŠ
Now I don't know whether GenAI is powerful because it could find a remote and small village, when a manual search could not. Or has it become so dominant that you can find a village in Iran only by looking far down in the search results.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/04/21/genai-a-village/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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reposted by
Mat Schulze
Emily M. Bender
3 months ago
A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools
As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical âpotentialâ to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to childrenâs development, mental health, pr...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/call-for-five-year-pause-on-gen-ai-in-schools%E2%80%8B
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Who is making the decisions here? The machine or the one who operates it?
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Learner Agency and GenAI
Motivation is only a small part of a student's agency (Knight & Barbera, 2018). Agency plays an important role in all teaching-and-learning processes, as students are the learning subject, setting their own goals and/or accepting or rejecting goals set by others for them. Of course, students do not just determine the goals but also the paths on which they reach them.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/04/15/learner-agency-genai/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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What do language teachers need to know about GenAI? In this podcast episode, Phil and I talk about four areas: prompting, ethics, chatbots, and machine translation.
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GenAI stuff you need to know now (part 1)
Learning about GenAI? Phil and I talk about the first four (of ten) knowledge areas and skills language teachers should aim to have now: prompting, ethics, chatbots, and translation. Combining practical examples with theoretical insights, we discuss these knowledge areas and skills in more detail than we could give in our position paper: AI and the future of language teaching: Motivating Sustained Integrated Professional Development (SIPD)
https://pantarhei.press/2026/04/08/genai-stuff-know-1/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Yes, this is about GenAI and language learning again. But unlike the others, to this one you can listen.
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What the LLM?
What the LLM? Have you been wondering about that? What is an LLM? A large language model. If you have been following this blog recently, you will have seen posts on a position paper on Sustained Integrated Professional Development for GenAI I co-wrote with Phil Hubbard. We are hoping this will be useful for language teachers. When writing the paper, Phil and I met regularly (on Zoom) to keep ourselves accountable.
https://pantarhei.press/2026/03/31/what-the-llm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Interview on GenAI and language learning Before the conference, Michael Hofmeyr, the local organizer and host of JALTCALL 2025, interviewed me on language learning and artificial intelligence.
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Interview on GenAI and language learning
In July 2025, I was fortunate to be invited to the JALTCALL conference in Tokyo. JALT is the Japan Association for Language Teaching and JALTCALL is its (very large) special interest group in computer-assisted language learning. Michael Hofmeyr, the local organizer and brilliant host of JALTCALL 2025 interviewed me before the conference and we (mostly me đđ đ) talked for a while.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/03/27/interview-on-genai-and-language-learning/
4 months ago
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A lot has been said about plagiarism with students using GenAI. A broader view ... on assessment.
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Assessment and GenAI
Often assessment focuses on the product and not the process; the submitted essay gets graded and not the process of writing it. Students can generate these material results of an assessed activity â a short essay, presentation, poster, or audio or video recording â more quickly and with a higher degree of linguistic accuracy than they can create them without the easily available GenAI tools (Fawzi, 2023).
http://pantarhei.press/2026/03/21/assessment-genai/
4 months ago
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A recording of the Grimm Lecture 2017
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Timothy Snyder on the Holocaust as History and Warning
When I served as the director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, I started the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lecture, the annual flagship event of the Center. For the last lecture that I organized - with a lot of help from many colleagues - we were fortunate to be able to host the historian Timothy Snyder in early 2017.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/03/12/timothy-snyder/
4 months ago
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Mat Schulze
CALICO - Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
4 months ago
đš CALICO is now accepting applications for our annual Outstanding Graduate Student award! Learn more and find the application form here đ
bit.ly/CALICOGradAw...
#GradStudent
#CALL
#ComputerAssistedLanguageLearning
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Learner motivation and GenAI Language teachers know that learners need to obtain and then to maintain a level of motivation in their second-language learning and language use. Motivation has become more important in the context of GenAI, as the example of recent advances in machine translation show.
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Learner motivation and GenAI
Language teachers know that learners need to obtain and then to maintain a level of motivation in their second-language learning and language use. Motivation has become more important in the context of GenAI, as the example of recent advances in machine translation show. Commonly available machine translation tools are now similar to GenAI-based chatbots, because they are also based on large language models.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/03/03/learner-motivation/
4 months ago
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We are announcing the (very) soft launch of our series of conversations on Opening AI for Language Learning by posting the first version of the static page on OAILL.
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Opening AI to Language Learning (OAILL)
... is a series of recorded conversations on topics at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular Generative AI (GenAI), and Language Education. We have started using the acronym OAILL, pronounced /owaıl/. With my accent this sounds like the German weil (=because), but it should be more the w in the English well. The people in conversation are listed in the table below.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/02/24/opening-ai-to-language-learning-oaill/
5 months ago
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reposted by
Mat Schulze
Eurocall Conference 2026 - Belfast
5 months ago
EUROCALL 2026 Conference: Promoting linguistic diversity through CALL Belfast, Northern Ireland, 8-11 September Call for Papers, available at the link below.
blogs.ulster.ac.uk/eurocallconf...
Deadline for submissions 2nd March Learn more about EuroCALL at:
eurocall-languages.org
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Recently, I revisited the first paper I wrote (2024) on things GenAI. Here is a little piece of it on the things that can be done in a dialog of a learner or a teacher with the machine.
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Second-language use in dialog ⊠with a GenAI-based chatbot
Teachers and students alike have used or can use GenAI-based chatbots in their first language. They produce texts that at least sound plausible in the commonly taught languages and in some of the less commonly taught languages, if large language models are available. For these languages, GenAI tools can also function as a dialog partner, natural-language search interface, sketch tool, and text adapter to augment CALL pedagogy.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/02/18/chatbot/
5 months ago
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This blog post is about something the LLM-based tools are very good at: conversation.
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Conversation and AI: Language in the wild?
From late 2022 to early 2025, several LLM-based chatbots were released, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek. All of them can generate conversational responses with remarkable linguistic accuracy and contextual appropriateness and at almost turn-taking speed. Such chatbots can be prompted to adjust the proficiency level of the output to the learner (but see Uchida (2025) for the challenges with adjusting for CEFR levels) and can stick to the desired topic and only use appropriate vocabulary.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/02/12/language-in-the-wild/
5 months ago
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Once in a while, I take a little break from things GenAI. I dug up a couple of older video recordings that are on the internet. In this one we are talking about: what's in a name? of a city? and 100 years later?
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Von Berlin to Kitchener â changing the name of Canadian city
Before 1916, the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, was called Berlin. Ten years ago in 2016, colleagues from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies and I organized a panel discussion that marked the 100th anniversary of that name change. This discussion took place and was recorded in the Kitchener Public Library. Carl Zehrs, the former mayor of Kitchener, was our moderator.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/02/02/von-berlin-to-kitchener-changing-the-name-of-canadian-city/
5 months ago
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What can the professional development for in-service language teachers look like in the times of GenAI?
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Professional development and GenAI
The degree to which generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly infiltrated education is unparalleled. Language education has been particularly impacted because GenAI tools process and generate the learning objective of that education, i.e., human language. Language teacher education programs have been faced with addressing GenAI since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, and we anticipate that many recent and future graduates will have had some formal education that includes it.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/01/26/professional-development-and-genai/
6 months ago
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reposted by
Mat Schulze
Emily M. Bender
6 months ago
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is back for our first live stream of 2026, wherein
@alexhanna.bsky.social
and I will look into how our health care system is suffering from AI-hype-itis: Monday, Jan 26, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute
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dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
https://twitch.tv/dair_institute
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The sustained integrated professional development for GenAI (GenAI-SIPD) has 10 knowledge and skill areas and 7 principles. Here are the 10 areas for teachers to look at. In short sips, we call it SIP(p)Ded.
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Ten skill and knowledge areas for (language) teaching with GenAI
We propose 10 areas for language teachers to develop fundamental knowledge and skills in. While these do not constitute an exhaustive list, they cover a wide range of the main applications of GenAI for language education. We suggest that teachers devote a few hours to exploring each as soon as possible, reflecting critically on how they may be incorporated in current teaching contexts.
http://pantarhei.press/2026/01/22/knowledge-areas-teaching-with-genai/
6 months ago
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Phil Hubbard is looking at four different frameworks for (language) teachers working with GenAI.
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What teachers need to know now about GenAI
We begin by reviewing four frameworks covering teacher competencies for AI and GenAI in education as a whole â UNESCO (2024), Educause (2024), ISTE (2024), and Paradox Learning (2023, 2025). This is part of a draft of an article I wrote with Phil Hubbard. He was the main writer of this part. In this paper, we are proposing a way in which teachers can organize their own professional development (PD) in the context of the rapid expansion of Generative AI…
http://pantarhei.press/2026/01/15/frameworks-for-teachers/
6 months ago
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Data & Society
6 months ago
Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust.
@emilymbender.bsky.social
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@nannainie.bsky.social
suggest focusing on a systemâs functionalities: instead of saying a model is âgood atâ something, say what it is âgood for."
www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...
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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
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The Panta Rhei blog also has a couple of static pages. This post is a replica of one of them. The main one ...
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Navigating change â the Panta Rhei enterprise
This post is a replica of the original home page. (The current home page of the site is simply set to the list of recent posts in reverse chronological order.) Just thought you might be interested what is behind this blog. If you are a regular reader, ... it cannot always be about AI đ Panta Rhei â everything flows…
http://pantarhei.press/2026/01/06/homepage/
6 months ago
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (conclusion)
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This one concludes the little series of posts, by bringing together all 7 lessons from what we knew about AI and language learning before ChatGPT came on the scence in late 2022.
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (conclusion)
Seven Lessons There has always been some interaction between AI and language and learning for the last 70 years. In computer-assisted language learning (CALL), people have worked on applying AI â aâŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/11/27/ai-seven-lessons/
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#7)
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This last of the 7 lessons focuses on pedagogy.
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#7)
7. Gradual release of responsibility Instructional sequences and other learning processes are structured according to pedagogical guidelines and principles and specific teaching methods. For reasonâŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/11/21/ai-7-lessons-7/
6 months ago
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Why an LLM-based chatbot is not a language teacher ...
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Education and AI: Tool versus tutor
Of course, a language teacher is more than a benevolent conversation partner. In AI, an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) would be more akin to a language teacher than a chatbot would. An ITS consists of three interacting components (see Heift & Schulze, 2007): The expert model, which captures the domain knowledge or the information that students should learn; The tutor model, which makes decisions about the instructional sequences and steps as well as appropriate feedback and guidance for the group as a whole and for individual students;
http://pantarhei.press/2025/12/30/tool-versus-tutor/
6 months ago
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What does machine translation in 2026 have in common with chatbots? The same underlying technology â artificial neural networks. What does that have to do with language teaching?
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Translation and AI: Separated by a common language
In the interaction with a chatbot, one can change the language or prompt the machine to reply in another language than that of the prompt or request a translation of a text generated previously. It is therefore not surprising that dedicated machine translation (MT), such as Google Translate and DeepL, relies on LLMs and thus artificial neural networks in the way that GenAI chatbots do.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/12/17/translation-and-ai/
7 months ago
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#6)
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And how about individualization ... can chatbots do that for language learners?
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#6)
6. Dynamic individualization Even though a GenAI is not an ITS, as some ICALL systems were, can it consider and appropriately respond to individual learner differences (Dörnyei, 2006)? On the one hâŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/11/16/ai-7-lessons-6/
7 months ago
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7 principles of sustained integrated professional development for language teachers in times of GenAI
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Seven principles of sustained integrated professional development (GenAI-SIPD)
This is part of a draft of an article I wrote with Phil Hubbard. He was the main writer of this part. In this paper, we are proposing a way in which teachers can organize their own professional development (PD) in the context of the rapid expansion Generative AI. We call this PD sustained integrated PD (GenAI-SIPD). Sustained because it is continuous and respectful of the other responsibilities and commitments teachers have; integrated because the PD activities are an integral part of what teachers do anyway; the teacher retains control of the PD process.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/12/11/7-principles-genai-sipd/
7 months ago
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#5)
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... and here is a technical reason why a chatbot is a good conversation partner for a learner and worse at teaching than the guy down the street, who sells ice cream and who is an excellent conversationalist
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#5)
5. Recording learner behavior and student modeling The intelligent tutoring systems in ICALL had this knowledge stored in a student model (Schulze, 2012). Student modeling (e.g., Bull, 1993; Bull, âŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/11/10/ai-7-lessons-5/
7 months ago
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A recent book on Artificial Intelligence in Our Langauge Learning Classrooms.
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Generative AI and the Future of Language Classrooms
Over the past decades, those of us interested in computer-assisted language learning have repeatedly seen new technologies arrive with promises to transform language education. From early interactive grammar exercises to multimedia CD-ROMs, from learning management systems to mobile apps, each sparked both excitement and trepidation. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), however, is different. The sudden arrival of large language models and their chatbots into everyday life in late 2022 did not just add another teaching and learning tool but set in motion a fundamental change of the environment in which teachers teach and learners learn.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/12/05/genai-future-language-classrooms/
7 months ago
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#4)
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My personal favorite of the 7 lessons from what we learnt in the time before 2022. Why teachers and learners should be cautious when some claims a chatbot can give you metalinguistic corrective feedback.
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#4)
4. Appropriate error correction and contingent feedback Rather than focusing on engaging the learner in communicative interaction, learning with ICALL systems was often based on the assumption thatâŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/11/05/ai-7-lessons-4/
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#3)
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Looking at what teachers have done with AI before ChatGPT-3 in late 2022 and at what can be and should be or should not be done with GenAI chatbots.
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#3)
3. Varied interaction in language-learning tasks The human-machine conversation often works because we are used to adhere â even if the machine cannot and is not â to Griceâs four maxims of câŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/10/30/ai-7-lessons-3/
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#2)
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Learning some lessons from the past takes a little writing. This is about lesson 2
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#2)
2. Communication in context Oxford (1993) desired that âcommunicative competence must be the cornerstone of ICALLâ  (p. 174), noting that many ICALL projects of her time did not meâŠ
https://pantarhei.press/2025/10/26/ai-7-lessons-2/
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Lesson #1: updated version
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Language Learning and AI: 7 lessons from 70 years (#1)
1. Exposure to rich, authentic language The texts â or the language â that a computer can understand or generate depend on its capacity for NLP. Computer scientists added the adjective 'natural' because the parsing of programming language(s) was possible, and necessary, before they turned to parsing texts produced by humans. In early NLP, computational linguists wrote grammatical rules and compatible dictionaries in programming languages such as Prolog and LISP.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/10/22/ai-7-lessons-1/
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Humans vs. AI: what is the difference. And also, who or what is better? As they used to say: Read all about it, ...
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Humans vs. AI: The real difference
What is the difference between humans and AI? You are wondering ... So was I ... In July of this year, I gave a keynote presentation at JALTCALL under the title "Language Learning with GenAI: Bridging the gap or burning the bridge." JALT is the Japanese Language Teacher Association, and JALTCALL is its large special interest group â I believe they have between 200 and 300 members in the interest group â in computer-assisted language learning.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/09/17/humans-vs-ai/
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CALICO Journal
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**CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS** The book proposal deadline for the 2028 Advances in CALL Research and Practice Book Series is
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shorturl.at/Tby36
Volumes address a variety of topics that reflect the breadth of diversity in the field of
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What is the future of language teaching? That's not what I am worrying about here. I am thinking about what language teachers can do now t shape the future of language teaching with GenAI.
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GenAI and the future of language teaching
A prediction about the future of language teaching when GenAI is rapidly evolving? That's tough. Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. Usually Niels Bohr is credited with this bonmot. Apparently, it was the Danish politician Karl Kristian Steincke who said it first: Det er vanskeligt at spÄ, isÊr nÄr det gÊlder fremtiden. We are more trying to explore how language teachers can begin to shape the future of language teaching with GenAI.
http://pantarhei.press/2025/09/12/future/
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If you would like to know what people did with AI (in language learning) before ChatGPT burst on the scene in late 2022, and what this tells us about the current developments in generative AI, ...
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GenAI and language learning
Photo by Victor Freitas on Pexels.com It feels like the chatter about AI (as they say, when most people mean generative AI only) seems to be as vast as the ocean ... And that is a good thing; we are dealing with a complex rapidly moving challenge-cum-opportunity. Recently, I wrote about 7 lessons from 70 years in the context of AI…
http://pantarhei.press/2025/08/09/genai-and-language-learning/
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