Generative AI in Language Education
Negotiating Power, Agency, and Identity Formation
Trilingual Conference – French, English & Indigenous languages (where applicable)
Hybrid Format, June 16–17, 2027
How do generative algorithmic environments affect processes of linguistic socialization, discursive agency, and identity formation in contemporary linguistic and cultural educational contexts?
This conference focuses specifically on contexts of language education, including the teaching of first, second, or additional languages, academic literacy, and the didactics of language and discourse, in majority, minority, and marginalized contexts.
It aims to examine how generative environments are transforming language teaching and learning practices and processes, as well as the dynamics of agency, identity, and linguistic socialization among learners and instructors.
Key dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: August 30, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2026
- Conference dates: June 16–17, 2027
Scientific Objective
This conference seeks to move beyond broad generalizations about the promises or risks of generative AI in order to offer a situated, empirically informed, and theoretically rigorous analysis of its effects on language, cognition, identities, and power relations in linguistic and cultural educational contexts.
Particular attention will be paid to language and culture teaching and learning contexts, as well as to transformations in academic discourse practices. The conference aims to contribute to the development of a renewed critical digital literacy that articulates algorithmic understanding, epistemic and linguistic reflexivity, and social justice.
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