OAILL podcast: OAILL in Hong Kong
Podcasts are virtual, right? Phil Hubbard and I were not really in Hong Kong. We were in Hong Kong virtually. We were there virtually, and Glenn Stockwell was there really. Time difference and all. In our podcast episode AI and professional development according to Glenn, Phil had…
Beyond AI (7): The Imitation Game (part 4) Textual analysis
Natural language processing: In 1990 after having completed my teacher training, I stayed at the university for my doctoral studies. And soon after the Deutschmark came to East Germany on July 1, 1990, I bought a personal computer (Figure 10) and found some software that were not…
Beyond AI (6): The Imitation Game (part 3) Going digital
Technology and language teaching — So far, I have mainly talked about the language lab and the TV, which were a big part of my own language learning. In my teacher training, the technologies I had learnt about and was tested on in the late 1980s were…
Beyond AI (5): The Imitation Game (part 2) Learning through teaching
I continued my language learning at the teacher training college (Pädagogische Hochschule) in at least one Russian language class a day for six days a week in groups of six students and during the third year abroad in Kaluga, a city 200km south of Moscow, at the…
Beyond AI (4): The Imitation Game (part 1): Instructed language learning
My language learning began early. I was nine years old and started grade 3 in a special class with the extended teaching of Russian (Wikipedia Contributors, 2026e). My peers in other classes would only begin to learn Russian, as an obligatory subject in East Germany, in grade…
Beyond AI (3): The Imitation Game – or – Language, learning, and computers in the mist of time
Figure 1: Part of an HSPG (linguistic) sign After outlining the qualitative research method of narrative autoethnography and introducing the research data I used, it is time to begin the story. An autoethnographic narrative can follow a chronological or episodic structure. Since each of the three parts…
Beyond AI (2): Why and how I employ autoethnography …
This is an excerpt from an early draft of a book chapter. The book will be about language teacher education and GenAI. I am posting these in smaller (mostly) self-contained posts. The posts are numbered consecutively. After they will have all come out, I will link them…
Beyond AI (1): Looking back to move forward
We are starting with the Akan word Sankofa, which means ‘to return, go, and get’ and symbolizes the taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present to make the future better through the benevolent use of knowledge (Wikipedia contributors, 2026). The concept…
The forgotten interview
Sometimes I forget things … forget things I did … forget I did something. Occasionally, I post videos and webpages that I found. Some of these resources, some of my memories have something to do with GenAI or AI in general, others don’t. This one doesn’t. It…
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…
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