Exploring the Impacts of GenAI on English and Applied Linguistics: Implications for a Future-Ready Journal

• Main Author: Roe, Jasper
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: English Teaching; Applied Linguistics; TESOL; GenAI; Educational Administration and Supervision; Higher Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol3/iss1/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1092/viewcontent/2roe_revised.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Since publishing our review in JEAL on AI-powered writing tools in 2023, a lot has changed, and will continue to change in the field of English and Applied Linguistics. Primarily, this is a result of the ‘AI Spring’ that global industrialised society is currently experiencing. In this editorial, I will discuss my perspective on some of the major developments over the last year in reference to teaching and research with GenAI, and attempt to chart what seems to be the most salient points of these technologies for our journal, in the hope that it will stimulate discussion, argument, experiments and research and contribute to the broader field.