Full Title: CIDL25 Workshop: Foreign Language Teaching – Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Large Language Models
Short Title: CIDL25
Theme: Foreign Language Teaching – Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Large Language Models

Date: 21-Nov-2025 - 22-Nov-2025
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Ionuț Geană
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://litere.ro/cidl-en/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2025

Date: 21-22 November 2025
Location: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
Keynote speaker: Prof. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna in Warsaw, Poland)

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite researchers, educators, PhD students, and specialists in teaching foreign languages or Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) to contribute with papers exploring the impact and interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the teaching and learning process of foreign languages/Romanian by non-native speakers.

This is a workshop that is part of The 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics.

Suggested Topics:
- AI and foreign languages/Romanian as a Foreign Language learning
- Adapting teaching materials to integrate LLMs
- Automated assessment of linguistic competencies
- Machine translation vs. direct Romanian language acquisition
- Cultural and linguistic challenges in AI-assisted language learning
- Case studies and practical experiences in technology-enhanced foreign language/RFL teaching

Submission Guidelines:
- Papers shall be presented in English.
- Abstracts (max. 300 words) should be submitted by 15 September 2025.
- Accepted papers will be published in the journal Romanian Studies Today, indexed in ERIH Plus (https://journals.unibuc.ro/index.php/romanian-studies-today).

Submit your proposals to: [email protected]