Hello all-- I am teaching an intensive course for new college students in August that will focus on second language acquisition, strategies for language learning, and language learning environments. I am creating a series of big questions to bookend the course. These questions will focus on the need to learn languages in the age of rapidly growing AI and machine learning. We will explore arguments for and against making the effort to learn a language as a human speaker, when AI and computer translation offers tools that in the minds of many in the general public (in the US), decrease the need for humans to learn languages. I would like to ask the list--- what kinds of resources (book chapters, articles, webpages) would you suggest for introducing these debates to college freshmen? The course lasts just two weeks, and will include a series of short writing assignments and in-class debates, so the resource material should be concise yet provocative.
Thanks so much in advance.
Beth
Beth Lewis Samuelson
Associate Professor
Literacy, Culture and Language Education (LCLE)
W.W. Wright School of Education
Educ. Bldg. #3044
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Tel. 812-856-8256, Fax 812-856-8287
Skype: beth.lewis.samuelson
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https://education.indiana.edu/about/directory/profiles/samuelson-beth-lewis.html
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