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…
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.…
OAILL podcast: 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 – what we call – 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…
OAILL podcast: GenAI — what do I need to learn?
Let’s use two comparisons: 1 — a jackhammer; 2 — 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…
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. Immigrants have many…
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,…
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…
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…
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 – this sub-area is commonly referred to as Intelligent CALL or ICALL – for almost 50 years. For a small group of researchers,…
I did not know this about GenAI …
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. Genai…
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