Paths for Exploring AI in Applied Linguistics
Carol A. Chapelle, Gulbahar H. Beckett, Jim Ranalli · 2024
AI-powered technologies have made natural language recognition and generation more accessible than ever before, opening new possibilities for applied linguistics research and practice. Like previous technological advances from word processing and accessible databases for storing texts to computer-mediated communication and automated grammar feedback, Generative AI (GenAI) invites professionals in applied linguistics to imagine new ways of teaching, learning, assessing, and researching language. Unlike previous advances, however, GenAI tools appear to forecast seismic changes in the field.