Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100153
Maria Mont, Melinda Dooly, Dolors Masats
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming language education through individualized practice, instant feedback, and enhanced engagement. This study investigates its integration into Technology-Enhanced Project-Based Language Learning (TEPBLL) and telecollaboration, focusing on perceptions of 48 young English learners who used a personalized version of ChatGPT-4 during a transnational project on clean water and sanitation. A qualitative thematic analysis of post-project survey responses was conducted, and theme frequencies were quantified to gauge salience. Learners reported high perceived value (90.7% positive) across language production, comprehension, collaboration, and AI/digital literacies. However, the teacher remained the preferred feedback source (69%). So, while AI offers immediacy and iteration, it cannot replace the social-emotional dimension of learning. Students also flagged challenges such as occasional misinformation, overloaded outputs, prompt-formulation, and language barriers. Findings suggest a pragmatic integration of AI as a scaffold to support teacher-led, telecollaborative TEPBLL, highlighting the need for explicit prompt literacy and mediation.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100151
Anila Çepani , Adelina Çerpja
There has been a growing development of the Albanian Natural Language Processing (NLP) in recent years, but morphological analysis remains a critical and under-resourced area. This article presents a comprehensive overview of the Digital Morphology Software, a core component of the Kulla e shqipes 2.0 platform, which is specifically developed to address the morphological complexity of the Albanian language's structure. Designed to serve both computational linguistics and language pedagogy, the software enables automatic analysis, generation, and classification of Albanian word forms across nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. Built on a rule-based and corpus-informed methodology, the system incorporates grammatical models drawn from authoritative Albanian sources. The formulas of these grammatical models apply structured rules to representative stems, ensuring accurate and scalable paradigm generation. The software is accessible via web, desktop, and mobile platforms, offering a responsive interface, real-time analysis, and interactive features. A standout component is the evaluation module, which allows users to complete paradigms manually and receive instant feedback - transforming the platform into a dynamic learning environment. The software is designed to support educational institutions, researchers, teachers, and learners by providing an interactive framework for mastering Albanian morphology. It also acts as a reliable reference tool for editors, linguists, and NLP developers. As one of the most complete morphological tools for Albanian to date, it offers essential infrastructure for advancing NLP applications, corpus annotation, and standardized language instruction.
近年来,阿尔巴尼亚语自然语言处理(NLP)有了越来越多的发展,但形态学分析仍然是一个关键和资源不足的领域。本文介绍了数字形态学软件的全面概述,该软件是Kulla e shqipes 2.0平台的核心组件,专门用于解决阿尔巴尼亚语结构的形态学复杂性。该软件旨在为计算语言学和语言教育学服务,可以自动分析、生成和分类阿尔巴尼亚语的词形式,包括名词、动词、形容词等。该系统以规则为基础,以语料库为基础,结合了阿尔巴尼亚语权威来源的语法模型。这些语法模型的公式将结构化规则应用于有代表性的词干,确保了准确和可扩展的范式生成。该软件可通过web、桌面和移动平台访问,提供响应式界面、实时分析和交互功能。一个突出的组件是评估模块,它允许用户手动完成范例并接收即时反馈-将平台转换为动态学习环境。该软件旨在通过提供掌握阿尔巴尼亚语形态学的互动框架来支持教育机构、研究人员、教师和学习者。它还可以作为编辑、语言学家和NLP开发人员的可靠参考工具。作为迄今为止最完整的阿尔巴尼亚语形态学工具之一,它为推进自然语言处理应用、语料库注释和标准化语言教学提供了必要的基础设施。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100152
Ferdinand Griesdoorn, Maarten Kroesen, Pieter Vermaas
This exploratory thematic review examines the emerging landscape of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) education. It reviews 17 peer-reviewed studies published over the past two decades, using the PRISMA methodology. These studies were categorized into four themes to identify recurring successes and obstacles. The review highlights several successful practices, including the contextualization of RRI, promotion of reflexivity, participatory methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, and instances of institutional integration. Simultaneously, it uncovers persistent obstacles such as conceptual ambiguity, institutional resistance, scalability limitations, and the difficulty of translating abstract RRI principles into measurable competencies. The relations between some of these obstacles suggests a vicious reinforcing cycle that hinders progress in RRI education. We argue that resolving conceptual and definitional ambiguities could foster a more coherent and sustainable RRI education.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100148
Maria Isabel Betancur Franco
Within grief, chatbots are being used for therapy and as “griefbots”, impersonating the dead. Users risk data breaches and psychological attachments to monetised services. To determine human-centred guidelines for the responsible implementation of grief AI, a qualitative study was conducted, consisting of therapist interviews (N = 4), a survey of individuals who experienced grief (N = 49), and interviews with a subset of respondents (N = 4).
Participants expressed low trust in the efficacy and data security of therapeutic chatbots and strongly rejected griefbots, citing ethical and psychological concerns. Therapists also highlighted associated risks, but identified opportunities for their use as complementary therapy tools, emphasizing a need for professional supervision and usage restrictions.
Guidelines include personalisation, data privacy and security, professional oversight, and restrictions by age and psychological characteristics. The novel RUDA framework (Responsible Usage, Development, and Administration) is proposed, mitigating associated risks by outlining accountability by actor for the responsible implementation of grief AI.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100149
Pascalle Paumen , Katleen Gabriels
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based grief technologies are being offered as solutions to grief: AI griefbots are trained on the departed’s or dying person’s digital footprints to simulate them. Ongoing research questions whether they help or hinder ‘healthy’ grieving, neglecting underlying assumptions about ‘normal’ grieving. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, this article analyses AI grief technology framings and portrayals in documentaries and six services’ websites (Seance AI; Eternos; You, Only Virtual; HereAfter AI; Project December; re;memory). We demonstrate AI grief technologies’ contribution to renegotiating grief as a technical problem to be solved. The techno-solutions are rooted in existing psychological discourses of ‘normal’ grief and position AI as band-aids or cures for grief and death. Documentaries on AI grief technologies play a significant part in reinforcing boundary-setting between normality and abnormality. Grief shifts from a human experience to something that can and should be made more efficient or avoided altogether through AI.
基于人工智能(AI)的悲伤技术被提供作为悲伤的解决方案:人工智能悲伤机器人通过训练死者或将死之人的数字足迹来模拟他们。正在进行的研究质疑它们是帮助还是阻碍了“健康”的悲伤,忽视了对“正常”悲伤的潜在假设。本文采用多模态批评话语分析,分析了纪录片和六个服务网站(Seance AI、Eternos、You, Only Virtual、HereAfter AI、Project December、re、memory)中AI悲伤技术的框架和描述。我们展示了人工智能悲伤技术对重新协商悲伤作为一个有待解决的技术问题的贡献。技术解决方案根植于现有的“正常”悲伤的心理学话语,并将人工智能定位为悲伤和死亡的创可贴或治疗方法。关于人工智能悲伤技术的纪录片在强化正常与异常之间的界限方面发挥了重要作用。悲伤从一种人类体验转变为可以而且应该通过人工智能变得更有效或完全避免的东西。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2026.100150
Khadiza Laskor , Richard Owen , Andrew Charlesworth
Innovations regarding the digital afterlife, underpinned by rapid advances in generative AI and synthetic media, potentiate the creation of interactive, posthumous personas – digital re-creations – based on the digital remains of the dead. Current regulations do not extend to these, resulting in a governance void. We present findings from 69 stakeholder interviews that explored whether such re-creations should be governed and, if so, how. Our respondents exhibited a widespread view that governance was necessary and proposed several governance options, although there was little consensus as to which of these should be taken forward. Stakeholders acknowledged the various motivations and purposes of digital re-creations, which governance should be sensitive to. Our findings suggest governance principles that include proportionality (in relation to purpose and use), dignity (of the deceased) and protection from harm for those interacting with digital re-creations, particularly for the vulnerable, e.g. minors and those who may be grieving. Given the nascent stage of these innovations, initiatives aimed at developing a common understanding of terms (such as the digital afterlife), education and awareness programmes, and convening broadly configured, policy-oriented governance working groups are important first steps towards responsible development.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100147
Maira Klyshbekova , Gisela Reyes Cruz , Caitlin Bentley , Stef Garasto , Amy Aisha Brown , Christine Aicardi , Brian Ball , Mohammad Naiseh , Oana Andrei
Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) education has emerged as a way of approaching the field of AI to address a host of concerns (Bentley et al., 2023). Many education providers have been releasing new RAI-related online courses, programmes, or toolkits. When combined with the issues emerging from the development, deployment, and use of AI, the expansion of RAI education and the proliferation of resources raise two critical questions. First, what can we learn about RAI from examining both the content and structure of publicly available RAI educational resources? Second, how might we understand the quality and impact of these RAI resources? We conducted a systematic search of UK RAI educational resources found online. We first present a descriptive analysis of 211 resources collected, including their type, format, cost, sector, audience, and type of provider. Furthermore, we describe our collaborative approach to analysing four pre-selected resources in-depth, from which we outlined an evaluation framework that we then employed for assessing the content of a subset of 47 resources. The five crucial areas of our framework could guide both learners and developers when approaching RAI resources.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100144
Iztok Kosem , Mojca Stritar Kučuk , Špela Arhar Holdt
This paper introduces a newly developed specialised Corplus concordancer designed to work with corpora containing annotated language corrections. Unlike traditional concordancers, which focus on retrieving linguistic patterns and frequency data from various types of corpora, this tool emphasises the retrieval and comparison of both erroneous and corrected forms within texts. It allows researchers and educators to track, analyse, and compare errors alongside their corrections, providing empirical data that can be applied to first- or second-language acquisition research, as well as applied linguistics, such as the development of language learning materials. The intuitive interface of the Corplus concordancer makes it suitable for classroom use, supporting data-driven learning and other approaches based on authentic language data. The Corplus concordancer has already been implemented to provide access to two Slovene corpora: the developmental corpus Šolar and the learner corpus KOST. The tool is programmed in a way to support a variety of languages and corpus types.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100143
Siri Padmanabhan Poti, Christopher J. Stanton, Catherine J. Stevens
In the global context of a ‘new social contract’ and a ‘flourishing world’, ethics mechanisms such as principles, guidelines, recommendations, standards, frameworks and checklists, are being established by public and private organisations and governments for the governance of 'algorithmic artificial persons (ALAP)', autonomous artificial intelligence (AAI) systems and emerging information and communication technologies (eICT). This paper examines, and identifies eleven gaps in the current ethics mechanisms, employing a ‘qualitative evidence synthesis’ (QES). Additionally, it proposes a ‘prescriptive conceptual model’ of an ‘anticipatory general ethics library’ (AnGEL), to enable resolution of these gaps. AnGEL is conceptually modelled as an implementable library of norms and rules for ALAPs / AAI systems and eICT, agnostic of domains and use cases. The conceptually modelled AnGEL may, post ‘verification’ through further discourse, and subsequent ‘validation’ of a prototype, be hosted on a cyber-physical intermediary. It can be rendered accessible through ‘Ethics-as-a-Service’ and provide ‘ethics interoperability’.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100141
Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki , Nasim Nasr-Esfahani
This study compared the effects of AI and human-AI hybrid tutoring on stuttering severity (i.e., frequency and duration of stuttered syllables) and social anxiety symptoms (i.e., fear of negative evaluation, avoidance behavior, and physiological symptoms) of female English learners. Besides, the participants' perceptions regarding the implemented approaches were explored. First, a quasi-experimental study was conducted for 92 stuttering female English learners with social anxiety to compare the effects of interventions using the Computerized Scoring of Stuttering Severity and Social Phobia Inventory. Then, focus group interviews were conducted with 24 participants to gain insights into the results. The findings revealed that AI tutoring significantly enhanced conditions of stuttering and social anxiety compared to insignificant effects of human-AI hybrid tutoring due to the potential advantages of AI in maintaining confidentiality, encouraging risk-taking, providing non-judgmental feedback, and offering unbiased interpretations. This study benefits inclusive language education, therapeutic pedagogy, intelligent tutoring systems, and educational psychology.
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