2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages (EUtLC2024)
Kane, Dr Michael · 2025
This volume gathers a selection of papers presented at the 2nd EUt+ Conference on Languages, celebrated between 26 and 28 June in Univesidad Politécnica de Cartagena, hosted by the Technical University of Cartagena in June 2024. The first EUt+ Conference on Languages (Darmstadt, 2023) provided a unique opportunity for all participants to share and discuss experiences, ideas and research on but not limited to the main topic of the conference: “Multiculturalism in a Post Colonial Era: Languages and European Values.” This time the second conference is shifting the focus to a very current topic like AI large-language models (LLMs), in a bid to merge new trends and further approaches into language teaching. The use of generative AI in educational settings is nowadays receiving considerable attention as a result of the irruption and wider availability of ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots such as Google’s Bard or Anthropic’s Claude. AI seems to offer such wide range of opportunities and challenges to be explored within the realm of language teaching that dealing with this topic at a conference at the core of the European University of Technology (EUt+) is arguably a must. However, other approaches to language teaching which have demonstrated to be effective are worth preserving and fostering as well. Therefore, both innovation and consolidation of good practices in Languages for Specific Purposes constitute the guiding thread of the conference.