Abstract 

Since the public launch of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022, generative AI (GenAI) has spread far more rapidly than any previous technological innovation. Despite the widespread interest in these remarkable tools, there are millions of practicing language teachers worldwide who completed their formal education before GenAI appeared. How can they come to understand and use GenAI safely and effectively in an informed manner and continue to do so as GenAI rapidly evolves? To provide guidance for these teachers and for teacher educators to address this critical gap, my colleague Mat Schulze and I created a framework for what we call sustained integrated professional development for GenAI (GenAI–SIPD) (Hubbard & Schulze, 2025). As the name suggests, it targets professional development specifically for GenAI, combining insights from technology-mediated language learning with elements of general AI literacy frameworks for education from organizations such as UNESCO. I begin with a brief overview of the framework, first presenting the 10 GenAI areas it identifies for teachers to become familiar with now in order to provide starting points for a set of professional development pathways relevant to language education. I next cover the model's seven provisional principles for engaging in self-directed GenAI-SIPD effectively.  I then explore how to apply this combination of pathways and principles to the domain of listening. I describe several listening-focused projects involving GenAI to support 1) my second language learning, in order to understand the learner perspective well, and 2) the production of resources and learner training support for independent listening practice and vocabulary development in ESL/EFL. By sharing these experiences with my own GenAI-SIPD, I hope to encourage teachers, developers, and researchers to explore more deeply the largely unrealized potential of GenAI in listening.