As the number of enrollments in language-focused university programmes continue to fall (in the UK and beyond), data from popular apps like Duolingo show that interest in learning languages in people under 22 is not the problem. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Interactive fiction is considered a niche game genre for geeks who like to play with language and puzzles, but it is both underexplored and IMO undervalued in research and practice of language learning and teaching. So I'm excited about our chapter in a new book that connects research and pedagogy!

Hello CALICOers! This is a friendly reminder that the Call for Proposals deadline for #CALICO2026 is Sunday, November 2nd! What should you do? 👇 Check out these simple steps for submission! #CALL #ComputerAssistedLanguageLearning

Give Gemini AI a quote from a woman and it still attributes it to a man. Even though it could Google it. And in this case the man is much more obscure than the actual author.

📅 The deadline for submitting your abstract proposal will be November 2, 2025. Learn about the beautiful Miami University campus and more details about the conference:

"It is shameful that we know far more about the surface of Mars and its atmosphere than we know about parts of our oceans."

new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Korean government looks set to give up on its much-heralded national 'AI textbook' policy after only a few months ... www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

🤖 LLM-based chatbots are increasingly being used as personal tutors for language learning, and will make you believe that they intelligently adapt to your proficiency. But adaptive systems for language teaching need to be transparent, in particular with regard to how they assess learning. [1/3]

EuroSLA 35 will be in Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026 clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/eurosla-2...

After 35 years of continuous activity with rigorous accountability, the network of 16 language resource centers in the US nflrc.org is being dismantled. If you are affected by or concerned about this, and are a US citizen, please contact your members of Congress via the link below!

Researchers in #CALL who were previously into games and play, and now seem to have disappeared onto the bandwagon of GenAI 🥱: you can still come back! 🙃 You can resist hype cycles! Slow research is fine!

Language education programs in the US are risking serious cuts, and these are imminent. If you are a US citizen, consider signing this petition: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

I like getting out of my academic comfort zone and write with people who challenge my views. This collab with @york.bsky.social helped me rethink my position on games in language education. Games mustn't always be digital. Teachers are key. Tech can have other uses than teach language. Out now!

Very insightful read on the drawbacks of relying fully on current speech recognition systems like OpenAI's Whisper, without humans in the loop. Raises questions for education and in particular use cases that can have far-reaching consequences like high-stakes (language) testing. #EdTech #AI

CALICO has a new opportunity to contribute to research in our field. Check out the following opportunities in partnership with University of Toronto Press: Chapter Proposals: bit.ly/4e17gX6 Book Proposals: bit.ly/3FV1ols

"De relatie tussen kennis en welbevinden: tweerichtingsverkeer" duurzaamonderwijs.com/2025/05/27/d... #evidence-based #onderwijs

We have a new banner (long overdue 😷) for our website. 😁Let us know what you think !

One of my favorite events at CALICO Conference! #startups #edtech #languagelearning

Join us for the LaunchPad competition at #CALICO2025 ! The live pitch event showcases 3 groundbreaking language learning startups. 🕦 Fri May 30, 11:30–12:45pm 📍 SDSU Aztec Union Theatre Don't miss one of the conference highlights for EdTech & CALL innovation thelanguageflagship.tech/launchpad/

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

Whenever I encounter scholars extoling the benefits of AI for fans, I can’t help but wonder what kind of fans they are talking about because it’s absolutely not the fanfic writers on the fanfic archive AO3. This includes me, btw.

List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list. The Gostak is an all-timer.

Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them

Typo! #TBLT2025 And a spoiler alert for the talk: come find out who got killed at the conference dinner, and why 😵🕵️🍷🔪😎

👋 #TLBT2025 participants on Bluesky: come find @fcornillie.bsky.social and @meryenda.bsky.social play around with our ideas and materials for teaching with fanfiction in English and Spanish language contexts! Tomorrow at 9:50 in room 1312.0025 with @matthewpattemore.bsky.social as session chair ❤️

The first book on Ludic Language Pedagogy is out! Looking forward to reading this primer into how to leverage play for language education, and sharing the insights with my students. #play #games #languagelearning #impact #classrooms

Starting #tblt2025 conference with Marta Gonzalez-Lloret and our talk on the effects of collaborative gaming in WTC and task engagement - ending the talk with a shout out to #CALICO2025 in San Diego 🌴☀️👩🏻‍💻 calico.org/calico-2025/

The curtailing of academic freedom needs to be battled on a global scale. My university's perspective on what is happening in the US. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/it-t...

My favorite conference of the year is around the corner. If you're into technologies and language learning, don't miss it!

CfP for special issue of Language Learning & Technology on genAI and data-driven learning in second language learning (publication February 2027). Abstracts due June 1. www.lltjournal.org/post/21/ @nflrc.bsky.social #CALL #languagelearning #genAI #research

A valuable roundup of research evidence from 5 studies on the impact of GenAI on human learning. TLDR: over-relying AI assistance can be associated with reduced critical thinking. drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Yaaaay, happy to finally find @eurocallhq.bsky.social on Bluesky! What is @caliconsortium.bsky.social up to? @denisuebiyev.bsky.social @jonreinhardt.bsky.social

LLP Community Newsletter – Feb 2025 mailchi.mp/a656321d3e5e... 🎤 LLP Symposium – Submission results are in – Event on March 15 👨‍🎤 Gen Analog 2025 “PUNK” CFP – Abstracts due March 31 📚 Research & Reads – “A Pedagogy of Play” book details #ludic #language #pedagogy

People need to talk to people.

This is a great video that echoes things I have been saying for years now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Qg...

⏳ 1 Week Left! The #EuroCALL2025 Call for Papers closes soon—don't miss your chance to present your work in Milan! Featuring plenary talks by: Pierfranca Forchini Marina Orsini-Jones Luke Plonsky Ana Sevilla-Pavón Submit by 3rd Feb: eurocall2025.com #eurocall #ELT #Edling #appliedlinguistics

Keynote speakers announced for CALICO 2025 at San Diego State University, May 27-31. Truly excellent researchers in CALL! You can register at calico.org/calico-2025/ @caliconsortium.bsky.social #languagelearning #technology

"The biggest risk of #AI in #education is that it makes us much more efficient at inneffective [pedagogical] practice", Dr. Philippa Hardmann quoting Dan Schwartz at Stanford Uni. www.ted.com/talks/dr_phi...

AAAL webinar "AI in Applied Linguistics: ChatGPT and Language Teaching," featuring Dr. Carol Chapelle and Dr. Lucas Kohnke, Tuesday, January 21. Free registration: www.aaal.org/events/aaal-... #AI #languageteaching #langsky #linguistics

The call for papers for #EuroCALL 2025 is out! Don't miss the opportunity to share your work at our in-person conference in Milan on 27-30 August 2025. Check the website eurocall2025.com

According to futurists, AI was propelled to have taken over medical diagnosis by now. Instead, IBM has sold Watson and left the health care market. Simultaneously, digital healthcare has increased the workload of doctors, has taken away valuable time from patients, and is subject to hacking. [1/2]

NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th-22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We hope to see you there! As always, we intend to stream all of our talks for those who cannot attend in person. Details: t.co/KXJP5oSDXM #NarraScope #InteractiveFiction

Captions confer comprehension advantages up through advanced levels of L2 proficiency - only at highly-advanced levels (C2 in the Common European Framework) does this advantage seem to dissipate. pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ss...

Just moved some of my content over from Twitter while migrating here definitively, to find bluer skies. It appears I may have spammed you -- sorry!

A clever parody on the genre of language learning mini-games. #edtech #LanguageLearning #games , created by @york.bsky.social cheapshot.itch.io/flappy-words

Mike Sharples nails it: "Studies with previous generations of personalised tutoring for students and automated admin systems for teachers have shown that these technologies typically increase, not decrease, workload. They require teachers to incorporate new technology into already-full lives..."

"underpinning the application of ‘Tech For Social Good’ in fields such as healthcare and education is the presumption that private sector technological interventions are now the most direct means of redressing poor quality public services" #critical #edtech @neilselwyn.bsky.social