University of Limerick represented at the European Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning in Belfast 2026

Several members of staff and students from University of Limerick attended the EUROCALL (European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning) conference in Belfast during the second week of September. The four-day conference, which this year focused on the theme of 'Promoting Linguistic Diversity Through CALL', provided a valuable opportunity to discuss the evolving CALL landscape. The research presented by the different members was very well received and sparked some interesting and relevant discussions. Prof Liam Murray discussed about ‘Reimagining Ethical Agency in Language Teacher Education in the context of Generative AI’ Dr Marta Giralt and Dr Maria del Mar Palomares presented data form their research ‘’putting the Chat into the chatbot: developing oral Spanish skills through GenAI mediated interactions’ PhD student Xiaxa Wang presented some results from her PhD research with a paper entitled: ‘Enacted Risk-Taking in Virtual Exchange Interaction among Chinese EFL Learners’ PhD student Sukmawati Yasim participated in the poster session with a poster entitled: ‘An Empirical investigation of Teacher talk and Student talk in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms at the Indonesian Tertiary Level’