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 😉😅😇) talked for a while. We talked about language learning and artificial intelligence and a few other things …

I have dug up a couple of older videos on the internet. Some of them have to do with my current thinking about AI, this one and a few others are related to my research but not to AI and language and learning. The connection, as almost always, is language … broadly conceived

Author: Mat Schulze

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