Session: The Role of Language Educators in the Era of AI | 人工智能时代语言教育工作者的角色
Theme: Technology Integration and Digital Learning | 技术整合与数字化学习
演讲者简介：
过去35年间，Andy Curtis博士共撰写、合著及编辑了200多篇文章、书籍章节和专著，曾在欧洲、亚洲、非洲、中东、北美、南美及中美洲等全球100多个国家和地区向超过5万名语言教育工作者发表演讲，其著作已被150多个国家的10万余名教育从业者阅读。2015年，他当选为TESOL国际协会第50任主席。现任澳门城市大学人文社会科学学院特聘客座教授，并兼任中国内地多所高校教职。同时，他也在安纳海姆大学教育研究生院担任教授。近年出版作品包括《反思语言教育领导力》（2022）、《新和平语言学与语言在冲突中的作用》（2022）及《不良语言：解码特朗普》（2024）。
Speaker Bio:
Over the last 35 years, Dr. Andy Curtis has (co)authored and (co)edited 200-plus articles, book chapters, and books, presented to 50,000-plus language educators in more than 100 countries, in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North, South and Central America, and his writings have been read by 100,000-plus language educators in more than 150 countries. In 2015, he was elected to be the 50th President of the TESOL International Association. Dr. Curtis is currently serving as a Distinguished Guest Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Macau, and is cross-appointed to a number of universities in Mainland China. He is also a professor in the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. His recent books include, Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education(2022), The New Peace Linguistics and The Role of Language in Conflict (2022), and Bad Language: Decoding Donald Trump (2024).
讲座内容：
我们有时会忘记，语言教学的历史可追溯至数千年前，远在计算机、互联网、智能手机乃至生成式人工智能（GenAI）出现之前。因此，本次开幕主旨演讲将从回顾历史出发，理解我们如何走到GenAI广泛应用的今天，并以此展望未来可能的发展方向。上世纪50年代，第一台大型计算机问世，其在语言教学中的应用主要局限于机械式语言操练，形成了所谓“机械训练扼杀兴趣”（drill and kill）的现象——这种重复枯燥、缺乏真实交际的教学方式，往往扼杀了学习者（有时甚至教师）的学习动力。那么，GenAI的出现是否意味着我们所熟悉的语言教学模式正走向终结？
Session Description:
We sometimes forget that language teaching has a history that goes back thousands of years, millennia before computers, before the Internet, before smart phones and before Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Therefore, in this opening keynote presentation, we will start by looking back as a way of understanding how we got to where we are now with GenAI, which will help us to look at where we might be headed with this in the future. In the 1950s, the first mainframe computers were developed, which in language teaching and learning were mainly used for language drills, leading to what was called "drill and kill," as the mindlessly repetitive and non-communicative nature of the instruction could "kill" the motivation of the learners (and sometimes the teachers too). Has GenAI brought us to the point where language teaching and learning, as we know it, is coming to an end?