Critical AI Literacies in Language Education: Building with Design Justice

This project investigates how students and teachers engage with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in language education across diverse sociocultural contexts. Technologies such as chatbots, machine translation systems, and automated writing assistants expand opportunities for access and learning but also raise concerns related to linguistic inequality, algorithmic bias, authorship, and fairness. Guided by the principles of Design Justice and the framework of Critical AI Literacies, the study brings together universities from Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Tunisia to examine comparatively how AI is perceived and used in language education. Using a qualitative research design, data will be generated through surveys, interviews, and focus groups conducted by local research teams. Findings will be discussed in an international symposium and disseminated through an open-access position paper and a peer-reviewed publication, contributing to the development of more ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible approaches to AI in language education.