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The Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguists (LLT SIG) is pleased to announce the autumn 2024 Webinar Series, on AI, new technologies and language learning and teaching.

The webinar series will consist of eight panels. In each panel, a researcher will present their recent research on technologies used in language learning and teaching, followed by a language teacher who will discuss the practical implications of these approaches in the classroom. A live question-and-answer period will conclude each session.

1. What language educators need to know about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for language learning & teaching
Speakers: Zoe Handley and Ana Nino
Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT

2. Using the online CEDEL2 corpus to explore the learning and teaching of Spanish as a foreign/second language
Speakers: Cristóbal Lozano and Ignacio López-Sako
Date: 6 November 2024 | Time: 6 pm GMT

3. Theoretical Analyses and Natural Language Processing for and via Language Learning and Teaching
Speakers: María Todorova and Nerina Piedra
Date: 13 November 2024 | Time: 2 pm GMT

4. How to determine the added value of new technologies for the language learning, teaching and testing process?
Speakers: Jozef Colpaert and Belén Sánchez Alonso
Date: 20 November 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT

5. Generative AI in language teaching and learning: Opportunity and challenge'
Speakers: Kate Borthwick and Antonio Martínez-Arboleda
Date: 27 November 2024 | Time: 4 pm GMT

6. Digital stories and young language learners: Do they have benefits for linguistic and non-linguistic development?
Speakers: Suzanne Graham, Alison Porter and María del Mar Albert de Carranza
Date: 4 December 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT

7. The application of ChatGPT in language and interpreting classroom
Speakers: Macarena Pradas Macías and Isabel Hoffmann
Date: 11 December 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT

8. Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in ELT: Gamification Tools and the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies
Speakers: Inmaculada Pineda Hernández and Sonia Li
Date: 18 December 2024 | Time: 4 pm GMT

Registration
To register, please use this registration link.