Fanny Meunier. Photo: Private.

Fanny Meunier starts with a brief presentation of the fundamentals of DDL. She then discuss calls to push the traditional boundaries of the approach to better exploit the affordances brought about by technologies (see e.g., Boulton & Vyatkina, 2021; Meunier, 2022).

The presentation will then narrow down to a comparison between corpus-aided vs GenAI-supported DDL, using the lens of agency to structure this comparison. In the context of language education, agency is linked to all the components, actions, or strategies used to shape the teaching and learning environment (see for instance Larsen-Freeman, 2019; Vaughn, 2020). Agency is also a key aspect of socio-materialist theories (Guerrettaz et al., 2021), which reconsider the complex interplay of agency between human (teachers, learners) and non-human elements.

Fanny will discuss and illustrate both learners' and teachers' agencies - and needs - at different teaching stages (before, during, and after teaching; see Meunier & Decorte, 2024; Meunier, 2024). She also show how this focus on needs and agencies can help teachers make informed and aligned choices between corpus-aided and GenAI-supported DDL tasks. 

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References

Boulton, A., & Vyatkina, N. (2021). Thirty years of data-driven learning: Taking stock and charting new directions over time. Language Learning Technology, 25(3): 66–89.

Guerrettaz, A. M., Engman, M. M., & Matsumoto, Y. (2021). Empirically Defining Language Learning and Teaching Materials in Use Through Sociomaterial Perspectives. The Modern Language Journal, 105(S1), 3–20. 

Larsen-Freeman, D. (2019). On Language Learner Agency: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective. The Modern Language Journal, 103: 61-79.  

Meunier, F. (2022). Revamping DDL: Affordances of digital technology. In Jablonkai, R. &  Csomay, E. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 344-360). Routledge.

Meunier, F. (forthcoming, 2024) Evolving paradigms in data-driven learning. In McCallum, L. & Tafazoli, D. (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Palgrave. 

Meunier, F. & Decorte, R. (forthcoming, 2024) Teaching alongside GenAI: affordances for language teaching and shifting agencies. In Farr, F. & Murray, L. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, Routledge.

Vaughn, Margaret. (2019). What is Student Agency and Why is it Needed Now More than Ever?. Theory Into Practice, 109-118. Online access.