BOOK REVIEW: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching

Language teacher professionalism must integrate integrity and pedagogical sovereignty to uphold ethical and self-directed teaching practices. Honesty, rigor, transparency, and accountability will ensure research integrity (Hosseini et al., 2025). Likewise, in addition to upholding the features above, updating language teachers with cutting-edge and pedagogically effective technology (e.g., digital literacy) will ensure ethical, responsible, and effective profession. Fortunately, resources like Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching from Cambridge University Press’s Element Series provide language teachers with an essential foundation for mastering GenAI, ensuring they stay at the forefront of ethical, responsible, and innovative pedagogy.

The book includes an introduction, eight sections, and three useful appendices. The Introduction advocates that, despite teacher digital competence and confidence in technology use due to Covid-19 pandemic, complexity and diversity in GenAI use require unique competency, hence professional digital competence. Thus, to conceptualize the need, the authors adopt five aspects of ‘professional-GenAI-competence (P-GenAI-C): a) GenAI technological proficiency, b) GenAI pedagogical compatibility, c) professional work, d) risk, well-being, and ethical use, and d) student preparation.