Author : Pablo Gervas, Rajiv Saxena, Carlos Leon, Mayuresh Kumar
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9789363642232
Language: English
Market: Adolescent/Adult
Pages: 232
Publisher: Goyal Publishers
Publishing date: December 2025
Size : 23 x 15 x 1.2 cm
Subtitle: Textbook
Subject: English
Weight: 350 gm
About The Book
The task of learning a foreign language with limited access to native speakers of the language faces significant challenges. Professionals charged with facilitating this task have historically found many ways of addressing the problem, mainly by developing teaching materials that provide students with controlled contact with the language, tailored to their level of expertise and adapted to the basic features of their own mother tongue. In recent years, many of these materials have progressively become computer-based. This makes it easier both for the teacher to prepare them and for the students to access them. However, this has always had an important shortcoming: language speaking is by its very nature an exercise in communication between humans, and computers, helpful as they might be in
Storing and making information available had, at this point, lacked the adaptability and fluency of people. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of material made available by the digital explosion—whether in terms of multimedia resources, social networks, or mobile phone apps—has exponentially multiplied the possibilities open to language students for accessing content in other languages. In addition, the advent of generative AI, with its chatbots capable of holding almost natural conversations with their users, has expanded the possibilities beyond simply accessing static
digital materials.
The papers compiled in this volume explore some of the options made possible by these advances. The first section includes papers that address the impact of specific technologies on language learning. The second section includes papers that address specific use cases in which technologies are applied to the teaching of specific languages. The final section includes papers that contrast the obvious advantages of these technologies with some of the potential disadvantages. Although there are significant benefits to be obtained from the application of technologies, there are some cases that may raise concerns, and it is also important that these be discussed as part of any effort to consider wider application
Overall, the papers in this monograph present an overview of a significant set of initiatives aimed at innovating the practice of foreign language teaching in India. Although they do not describe research at the frontier of current expertise in international terms, they compile ideas and best practices that have emerged at the forefront of foreign language teaching in the specific conditions that hold in India. As such, we believe they will be a valuable tool for language teachers and language learners that face similar challenging conditions.
About The Author
Prof. Pablo Gervas
Prof. Pablo Gervás holds a PhD in Computing from Imperial College London (1995) and is currently a Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of Computational Creativity and Natural Language Processing at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the author of the PropperWryter software, used in the creation of Beyond the Fence—the first computer-generated musical, staged at London's West End in 2016.
Prof. Rajiv Saxena
Prof. Rajiv Saxena is a distinguished language educator and scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, where he serves as Professor and Chairperson of the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies. His international experience includes Fulbright Senior Scholar appointments at Harvard University and the University of California, USA.
Dr. Carlos Leon
Dr. Carlos León is a researcher and Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, specializing in computational cognitive science, creativity, and narrative. He has been affiliated with international research centers, including the University of Southern California, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hamburg.
Dr. Mayuresh Kumar
Dr. Mayuresh Kumar is an assistant professor of Spanish at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and a former adjunct faculty member at Ohlo University, USA. He has collaborated with Harvard University and several Spanish institutions, including the Universities of Valladolid, Cádiz, Nebrija, and Burgos. His research and publications with Springer Nature and other international presses explore the intersections of applied linguistics, translation, and digital pedagogy.
