Humanising Language Education in Generative Artificial Intelligence - A Critical Realist Approach

Examining the presence and influence of GenAI in the contexts of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and written composition within university-level English as a foreign language (EFL) programmes, this book asserts a humanist view of language education informed by Critical Realism and the social realist philosophy of education.
This author looks at the GenAI-language education interaction through explicit philosophical engagement, with the aim of strengthening a critical and emancipatory approach to EAP, written composition, and language education. By highlighting technological determinism and relating it to broader neoliberalist mechanisms, it provides new insights into the social, political, economic, cultural and historical contexts within which the use of GenAI technologies by language teachers and learners can be understood.
Humanising Language Education in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Age will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, education and sociology as well as organizations devoted to understanding the evolution, application, and impact of GenAI on education and language learning.

List of contents

1.Introduction. 2.Chapter 1 - GenAI and the question of alignment. 3.Chapter 2 - GenAI in (language) education and written composition. 4.Chapter 3 - Neoliberalism, education, and GenAI. 5.Chapter 4 - Technological determinism. 6.Chapter 5 - Anti-humanisms and GenAI-in-education research. 7.Chapter 6 - Humanism from a relational perspective. 8.Chapter 7 - Critical realism's relational perspective and its relevance to (language) education. 9.Chapter 8 - A social realist view of (language) education and written composition. 10.Conclusion.

About the author

Jérémie Bouchard is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Hokkai Gakuen University, Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremie Bouchard, Jérémie Bouchard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.01.2026
• EAN: 9781041135678
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4113567-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI