This episode is a conference special edition featuring keynote speaker Mathias Schulze of San Diego State University. In this episode, 2025 conference chair Michael Hofmeyr interviews Matt about his thoughts and ideas on a host of topics related to his keynote speech at the JALTCALL 2025 Conference.

Mat is a professor of German (Applied Linguistics) and Comparative International Studies at San Diego State University. By training, he is a teacher of German and Russian. Later, he earned his PhD with the dissertation “Textana—Grammar and Grammar Checking in Parser-Based CALL” at the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Mat has conducted research on the intersection of artificial intelligence and language education for thirty years. His research on AI and CALL, grammar learning, online language courses, and societal bilingualism has been published widely in books and articles.

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Mathias Schulze pre-conference 2025 interview by Michael Hofmeyr

In this September studio talk episode of the JALTCALL podcast, "AI, Publications, and Conferences," the team discusses new AI developments and upcoming events as well as announcing the inaugural edition of the JALTCALL Trends journal is now live, with all 30 articles individually linked and openly accessible. The podcast also covers recent AI research in working papers, especially one from the NBER Working Paper Series, How People Use ChatGPT by Chatterji et al. (2025, Sep) Working Paper 34255

We mention Sesame AI's Miles and Maya from the interview with Gordon Wilson earlier this month.  We discuss researching the most commonly used verbs in prompt engineering, focusing on custom commands for LLMs like Gemini and ChatGPT. The discussion highlights that many non-English, LLMs, particularly from China, are non-English models which are also gaining traction, raising questions about data bias and language accessibility. We end the episode with mention of the upcoming JALTCALL Forum and Podcast Workshop at the JALT 2025 International conference in Tokyo, as well as the JALTCALL Symposium in March 2026.
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http://www.nber.org/papers/w34255
https://soundcloud.com/jalt-call/gordon-wilson-and-2-ai-conversations-interview-w-brian-g-sept-2025
https://sesame-ai.pro/

September 2025 Studio Talk w Brian, Luc, Geoff, and Robert

In this special holiday-weekend episode, Brian interviews Gary Ross, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kanazawa University, where he is Director of English and develops the online ESL program. Gary is a full-stack developer specializing in AI and online learning. He is the creator of J-Talk.com and the superb conference platform Edzilla, which we continue to use as our JALTCALL conference hosting system. We discuss Gary's various Kaken projects, including (1) Speech recognition in medical communication and training using ML with Jeanette Dennison, and (2) the Extensive Reading Artificial Intelligence app in collaboration with Mark Breirley https://gamma.erai.app/dashboard/manuscripts 
Check out Gary's J-Talk website for academics working in Japan(ese). https://j-talk.com/convert
and contact us at the podcast using jaltcall@jaltcall.org 
Contact Gary Ross at gary@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp Kaken Researcher Number 10708142

Gary Ross Interview by Brian Gallagher Oct 2025

Japan association for Language Teaching (JALT) Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group. (JALTCALL)

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