Author: IRCEELT Conferences

Keynote: Are You AI-Ready? Preparing Faculty for the New Era of Teaching and Learning. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of post-secondary education, creating new opportunities for instructional innovation while raising critical concerns around assessment, academic integrity, faculty workload, and equity. Many educators feel unprepared for this rapid shift and need clear, practical guidance on how to adapt their teaching and support their students in an AI-rich environment. This session provides a balanced, actionable roadmap designed specifically for faculty. Participants will explore the tangible benefits of AI—including personalized learning, improved accessibility, and instructional efficiency—as well as the challenges related

Keynote: Three Proposals for the Effective and Ethical Use of AI in the Teaching and Learning of English in Georgian Universities and Schools. Abstract: Globally, artificial intelligence has become a key part of language learning experiences. It is changing how learners access material, receive feedback, and carry out complex literacy tasks in their additional languages. In Georgia, where English is taught as a foreign language in universities and schools, generative AI tools offer both opportunities and risks, especially related to academic honesty, assessment quality, and equal access. This paper draws on research in artificial intelligence, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), technology-based

Keynote: Studying language change in the AI era: Will ChatGPT or a language corpus win the game? Abstract: Learning foreign languages based on data collected in corpora (known as Data-Driven Learning) has a long tradition with numerous studies proving the beneficial effect of corpus consultations on increasing authenticity of language instruction, improving grammar discovery and vocabulary acquisition. The emergence of Web-as-Corpus and do-it-yourself concordancing approaches, together with facilitated access to ready-made corpora, enabled the incorporation of DDL techniques into language classrooms. However, with the Generative Artificial Intelligence tools revolutionising the language teaching landscape, a question needs to be asked whether

Dr. Lasha Kurdashvili is a historian and lecturer with a PhD in American Studies, specializing in History of Civilizations, US History, and Georgian History. He is a committed educator at Tbilisi State Medical University and serves as an Associate Professor at Ken Walker International University. Born in 1991 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Dr. Kurdashvili’s lifelong passion for history led him to pursue American Studies at International Black Sea University in 2007. His academic journey also included studies at King’s College London. In 2017 he earned his PhD as a testament to his scholarly pursuits. Honored with the 2022 Exemplary Teacher Award

Jason was born in California but grew up in Connecticut and New Jersey. He has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature. He has taught in four countries and is a certified public school English Language Arts teacher in the USA. He currently resides in Çanakkale, Türkiye.

Natela Doghonadze is a Professor, Doctor in Education Sciences at IBSU. She defended her PhD thesis on methods of teaching vocabulary in middle school in 1983, and completed her postdoctoral dissertation on EFL course-book design for adult learners in 1998. She worked for the Georgian Technical University from 1983 to 2006. She has been working at IBSU since 1997, as invited lecturer between 1996 and 2006 and as academic staff since 2006. She was PhD (Education Sciences, during 2011-2021) and MA (Education Management, during 2013-2019) Program Coordinator at the International Black Sea University. She was IBSU Vice-Rector during 2006-2016. She