What is working when we talk about AI and teaching and in terms of language, where are we going when machines generate new discourse?
Meet our speakers
Dr Kimberly Vinall is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Language Center (BLC). Dr. Vinall received her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 and her MA in Hispanic Literature at the University of Arizona in 1995. Prior to assuming her current position, Dr. Vinall was a Spanish language program coordinator at the University of Michigan and a tenured faculty of Spanish at De Anza College. Informing her work in the BLC are her almost 20 years of teaching language, culture, and literature; her experience developing curricular materials for beginning, intermediate, and advanced language levels at the university and community college levels; and her almost 15 years of experience as a language program director, including the training of world languages instructors.
Dr Emily A. Hellmich (PhD) is Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center. Dr. Hellmich completed her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 and her MA in French Cultural Studies at Columbia University in 2010. Before coming back to Berkeley, she was Assistant Professor of French & Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hellmich’s research focuses on the intersection of globalization, digital technology, and language education, with recent publications in journals such as CALICO, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Foreign Language Annals, Second Language Research & Practice, and Alsic. Dr. Hellmich and Dr. Vinall's 2023 article "Student use and instructor beliefs: Machine translation in language education(link is external)" won the Language Learning & Technology Dorothy Chun Best Journal Article. Her current research project, co-led with Dr. Kimberly Vinall, was awarded a 2023-2025 US Department of Education International Research Studies Grant.
Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva is Assistant Professor (Education) at the LSE Data Science Institute. He first joined LSE in September 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Methodology. Since January 2022 he has been a permanent member of staff at the DSI carrying out teaching and scholarly work in education.
Dr Laura Koebis from the University of Jena...
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The conference will be opened by Ana Maria Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros (Director of the King's Language Centre) and Dr Neil McLean (Director of LSE Language Centre).
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