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GLOTECH plenary 2025

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Conference website: https://web.ua.es/es/dl2/glotech-2025 Plenary: Critical AI literacy (CAIL): language education and applied linguistics as central disciplinary areas Download here the comptencies outlined in the Pérez-Paredes, P. Curry, N. & Ordoñana-Guillamón, C. (2025). Critical AI literacy for applied linguistics and language education students. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning (JCCALL). Special Issue Theme: Cultivating AI literacy in … Read more

Usage based and the emergence of L1

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The following quotes are from Lieven, E. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language development: Where do we go from here? Language and Cognition,8(3), 346-368. doi:10.1017/langcog.2016.16 Young children show differential and restricted competence in comprehension and production early on; second, that children’s linguistic productivity is tied closely to their linguistic experience, but this interacts with processing capacity, the … Read more

Some extracts from Jean Coussins’ “English is not enough”

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Source: (URL) A NATIONAL RECOVERY PROGRAMME FOR LANGUAGES. A framework proposal from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, published 4 March 2019 Some extracts Britain, and its government, must remember that only six per cent of the world’s population are native English speakers and 75 per cent speak no English at all. The amount … Read more