This volume is intended for researchers, teacher educators, graduate students, language teachers, program administrators, and educational policymakers interested in how generative AI is reshaping second language learners and language learning. The book will be especially relevant to those working in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, TESOL, and computer-assisted language learning.
Rather than focusing primarily on classroom activities or tool-based applications, the volume will center on the learner. It will examine how generative AI may affect learner identity, affect, agency, motivation, participation, community, linguistic norms, and legitimacy. The book will assume some familiarity with language learning or applied linguistics, but does not require advanced technical knowledge of AI.
This volume will benefit readers who want to understand not only how generative AI can be used in language learning, but how it may change learners themselves, including how they participate, how they see themselves, and how they are recognized as legitimate language users.