Language Education in the Age of AI: Applications and Implications
The Free university of Bozen -Bolzano is organizing the international conference “Language Education in the Age of AI: Applications and Implications” taking place in Bolzano, Italy on 23rd October 2026.
The aim of this conference is to explore the opportunities, risks, and responsibilities associated with the use of artificial intelligence in language education. How does AI change the role of human language teachers? How does it change the needs and strategies of learners? What pedagogical practices and institutional policies are emerging?
We invite contributions that showcase innovative research and practices while critically examining the legal, ethical, pedagogical, and psychological impacts of human–machine interaction and collaboration in language teaching and learning.
A call for papers is now open and until 1st July 2026.
Thematic areas include, but are not limited to:
- language instruction (e.g., materials writing, classroom management, instructional support);
- learner autonomy (e.g., data-driven learning, intelligent tutoring, metacognitive support),
- language assessment (e.g., test development, automated scoring, diagnostic testing),
- teacher research (e.g., reflective practice, needs analysis, corpus linguistics),
- program administration (e.g., curriculum monitoring, workflow automation, AI policies).
More information can be found in the attached document.
For questions, contact LanguageCentreEvents@unibz.it