We find ourselves at a pivotal moment where the role of generative AI and other technological tools is reshaping the way we teach and learn languages. The question that lies before us is not whether these innovations will shape the future, but rather how we, as educators, will harness their potential to create meaningful and effective language instruction.
The title of our conference, No Fate: The Future is Not Set, underscores our belief that the future is not predetermined. We hope that our conference will serve both as a platform for collaboration and a catalyst for change as it is via the collective effort of educators, researchers, and innovators that the trajectory of language teaching and learning will be determined. By fostering collaboration, sharing insights, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, we can shape the future of language education.
This presentation proposes to the intertextuality, a particular phenomenon in the building up of the conversational skills for CFL learners. To be specific, this study examines the learners' ability of cutting, tailoring, and suiting the fixed lines or texts from the textbook into various social contexts to realize the communicative purposes and meet the interlocutors’ expectations. Additionally, this study advocates that the competence of transforming the lines from the original context from the textbook into a new social and communicative event is the ultimate goal of Chinese L2 language development. At the end, this study bridges the polarized language education between the cognition-based school and the sociocultural camp by bringing a third realm into the field.
