Presentation Panel Presentation
Imaginative Futures for Foreign Language Education
Date Wednesday, Nov 27 Time –
Among all the different fields of education, foreign language education may be the most affected by GenAI because it impacts the core objective of foreign language education, which is to teach students how to communicate proficiently in a foreign language. As a result, it is important to reflect upon imaginative future scenarios for foreign language education as we will do in this presentation; these scenarios are an invitation for further reflection, discussion, and dialogue about foreign language learning in the AI era.
Katrien Dewaele
French Teacher and Researcher , UCLeuven-Limburg (UCLL, belgium), Belgium
Katrien Dewaele is a lecturer French at the Faculty of Teacher Education of UCLeuven-Limburg (UCLL, Belgium). She is also a researcher at the Centre of Expertise ‘Education & Development’ of UCLL. Her research focuses on how to facilitate learning processes in an evidence-informed way and enhanced by technology. In her teaching practice and research work, she bridges the gap between insights from educational research and classroom practice. Katrien is an expert within the field of foreign language didactics and has already shared this expertise in several publications, at (inter)national conferences, and in teacher training programs with Teacher Design Teams.