chatbots Archives - The FLTMAG https://fltmag.com/tag/chatbots/ IALLT's free language technology magazine Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:15:56 +0000 en hourly 1 Chatbots From Classroom to Conference: Fostering Collaboration in Language Learning with Mizou https://fltmag.com/chatbots-collaboration-mizou/ https://fltmag.com/chatbots-collaboration-mizou/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:15:56 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=10040 By Carmen De Lorenzo, Michigan State University, and Silvia Giorgini-Althoen, Wayne State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LJOQ6934 Introduction Language teachers today are moving beyond initial experimentation with AI toward intentionally designing student-centered learning experiences that reflect their pedagogical values, creativity, and goals.

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]]> https://fltmag.com/chatbots-collaboration-mizou/feed/ 4 Opening the Toolbox: Creating & Customizing AI Chatbots for Language Learning: IALLT Featured Webinar of 2025 https://fltmag.com/featured-webinar-ai-chatbots/ https://fltmag.com/featured-webinar-ai-chatbots/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:48:57 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=10001 Presenters: Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez and Dr. Richard Medina, Center for Language & Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/MEYK2207 This webinar shows how instructors and students can use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to design and build custom AI-powered chatbots

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]]> https://fltmag.com/featured-webinar-ai-chatbots/feed/ 0 AI Chatbots for Beginning Language Learners https://fltmag.com/ai-chatbots-for-beginning-language-learners/ https://fltmag.com/ai-chatbots-for-beginning-language-learners/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:31:51 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=9911 By Akiko Meguro and Todd Bryant, Dickinson College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CZNP1530 Introduction One of the challenges facing language teachers is creating engaging out-of-class assignments that support the communicative goals of the current lesson while also providing useful feedback. Online workbooks offer

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]]> https://fltmag.com/ai-chatbots-for-beginning-language-learners/feed/ 2 Making Space for Real Conversations: AI Chatbots in the Language Classroom https://fltmag.com/real-conversations-ai-chatbots/ https://fltmag.com/real-conversations-ai-chatbots/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:38:03 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=9902 By Nataliya Spirydovich, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YHRJ4554 We’ve all been there: students freeze up in conversation practice, or the more confident ones dominate while the quieter ones fade into the background. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can shift that

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]]> https://fltmag.com/real-conversations-ai-chatbots/feed/ 2 Let’s Code for Languages: Integrating AI Chatbots into Language Learning https://fltmag.com/ai-chatbots/ https://fltmag.com/ai-chatbots/#respond Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:39:12 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=6390 By Ann Cai, Dino Konstantopoulos, Robert Davis, Yufei Zheng, Dongying Liu, Northeastern University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/WGLC4005 Introduction of the Research With the improvement of deep learning technologies, the Big 4 computer companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon) have been developing their

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