5th workshop of the series on AI and language learning and teaching will focus on reading and writing

The Community of Practice (CoP) “AI and Languages Learning and Teaching” invites you to its fifth online workshop in a series of meetings and training sessions that will be held on Microsoft Teams.

Professor Anna Turula (University of Wrocław) will deliver a session titled “Using AI to teach foreign languages – Focus on reading and writing” on 27 May 2026, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST).

Workshop description:

In this workshop, we look at how language teachers can use artificial intelligence to help their students develop their language skills. In particular, we will concentrate on the skills of reading and writing and explore the various ways in which these can be AI-enhanced.

In the case of reading, we will focus on comprehension and how AI can help students on the levels of access and conceptualisation. With the former in mind, the workshop will cover how chatbots can function as extended, dialogic dictionaries. We will also experiment with pedagogical prompts and strategies which enable such use of AI. At the conceptualisation level of reading comprehension, the workshop will cover various ways to learn (and tools for) context engineering.

When it comes to writing, it is pedagogical prompting and modelling agentic AI that will be our area of focus. Additionally, we will explore two ways in which to interact with chatbots and agents in the process of writing: cyborgisation and centaurisation of the working mode. We will also consider ways in which AI can boost the critical thinking skills of FL writers and minimise their cognitive load.