🌐 The 2nd VietCALL International Conference (VietCALL 2026)

🎓 Conference Overview

Generative AI and automated language technologies are rapidly reshaping how languages are taught, learned, and assessed. Teachers and learners face a dual challenge: to use AI effectively while also understanding limitations, risks, and ethical implications.

In language education, AI can support feedback, translation, writing assistance, speaking practice, and assessment—but it can also amplify inequities, blur authorship boundaries, and introduce threats to validity in testing and evaluation.

VietCALL 2026 responds to these realities by centering the conference on ethics, agency, and assessment—three pillars that shape whether AI becomes an empowering learning partner or a source of confusion, unfairness, and mistrust. AI Literacy is more than tool operation. It is the capacity to critically evaluate AI outputs, interpret system constraints, make responsible decisions, and align AI use with pedagogical goals and professional standards.

💡 Conference Theme

AI Literacy for Teachers and Learners:
Ethics, Agency and Assessment

🧭 Conference Sub-themes

1️⃣ Ethics & Responsible AI Use

• Responsible AI Use in Language Education: ethics guidelines, risk management, transparency, and stakeholder communication.
• Bias, Fairness, and Inclusion: language varieties and accents, cultural/linguistic bias, disability access, and equitable AI-supported feedback.
• Academic Integrity and Authorship: disclosure norms, citation practices, plagiarism policy updates, and governance of AI writing support.

2️⃣ Agency, Literacy & Assessment

• AI Literacy Frameworks and Curriculum Design: learning outcomes, progression models, and curriculum integration.
• AI-Aware Language Assessment: assessment redesign, validity, rubrics, and secure testing approaches.
• Learner Agency and Self-Regulated Learning: metacognitive prompting, reflection, and responsible AI use.

3️⃣ Professional Development & Research

• Teacher Professional Development: competencies, training models, and institutional capacity building.
• Research Methods and Evaluation: mixed methods, learning analytics, and AI literacy measurement.

4️⃣ Linguistics & Cultural Studies

• Languages & Linguistics
• Translation and Interpretation
• Language and Culture
• Cross-Cultural Communication

📑 Formats and Participation

VietCALL 2026 welcomes a range of scholarly and practice-oriented formats:

• Research paper presentations
• Practice-based demonstrations
• Symposia/panel discussions
• Workshops and teacher development sessions
• Posters

🎯 Who Should Attend?

• Language teachers and educators
• Researchers in AI, CALL, and assessment
• Institutional leaders
• Graduate students
• EdTech developers