Call for Papers

AI has been impacting English learning, as in many other areas. With its powerful function of effective generation of human-like language and summarization of the searched data, AI has become a useful tool for foreign language learning and communication. On the other hand, the authenticity of learner performance, the potential misinformation in AI-generated output, the issue of academic ethics and copyright infringement, as well as the role of the English teacher and language instruction and assessment necessitate reexamination and redefinition to rise to the challenge caused by AI-induced paradigm shift in language education.

Moreover, AI raises critical questions and offers new possibilities in the humanities. It challenges scholars to redefine human identity, aesthetics, creativity, ethics, life and death, and others. While some believe that AI can take over menial work and facilitate speedy data processing that supports better research, others are concerned that over-dependence on AI may backfire as it undermines individuality, subjectivity, affect, senses and sensitivity—all of which humankind treasures deeply as human qualities. While some technicians think that human life may be greatly optimized with the help of AI, others raise concerns regarding the potential threats it may pose to the human world. Similar reflections, speculations, and debates can widely be found among leaders in AI technology, social commentators, humanist thinkers, and scholars. Various forms of concern, discussion, and vision on the impact of AI are also abundant in literature, such as science fiction, utopian and dystopian narratives, futuristic imagination, and other genres. Regardless of one’s attitude, the importance of AI is safely entrenched in the present-day world. It is therefore worthwhile to examine our relations with AI, explore further possibilities, and push our understanding of this “equivocal hound” to the limit.

In keeping with this year’s theme, we welcome submissions on the following topics as well as others: