Main Conference Theme

Learning, ethics, and critical thinking in times of digital technologies and AI.

The rapid expansion of digital technologies, particularly AI-based tools, has profoundly transformed language teaching and learning contexts. These developments challenge traditional notions of authorship, knowledge production, and assessment, prompting the academic community to reconsider the ethical and pedagogical principles underpinning research and teaching practices.

Within the field of Portuguese language education, the growing presence of digital technologies and AI raises fundamental questions: how do we learn and teach in times of AI? What ethical and critical implications emerge from the use of technologies that simultaneously expand and constrain learning processes? This conference seeks to provide a space for critical reflection and dialogue on the intersections between learning, ethics, and critical thinking in the age of AI. We welcome contributions that present empirical research, pedagogical experiences, and theoretical perspectives, fostering an informed and critical understanding of the role of digital technologies in Portuguese language education.

Themes and approaches include:

• Technological mediation of learning: how to deal with students who resort to digital and AI tools in learning processes? 
• Authorship and originality: rethinking student authorship in the age of AI
• Assessment and feedback: challenges and implications of new modes of assessment practices in times of AI
• Ethics and critical awareness: responsible and reflective integration of digital technologies in language education
• Critical thinking and digital and/or AI literacy: pedagogical practices that promote ethical, reflective, and creative uses of technology
• Reading and media: transformations in reading practices and interpretation in digital environments
• Reflections on learning: what it means to learn and to teach in times of digital technologies and AI
• The arts and AI: integrating the arts (music, visual arts, literature, etc.) alongside AI in the classroom and exploring their role as a counterbalance to these technologies.

Contributions addressing other relevant themes are also encouraged.

Modes of Participation

• Paper presentation
• Panel 
• Workshop

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Scientific Committee

Submission Guidelines

• Paper presentations (20 minutes): abstract of up to 300 words
• Workshops (90 minutes): abstract of up to 600 words, including rationale, objectives, and technical support
• Panels / coordinated sessions (90 minutes): abstract of up to 600 words; panels should include three 20-minute papers, allowing time for discussion

Abstracts should be submitted by 30 March 2026 via the following link:  

Formulário de submissão de propostas para a IV Conferência da TROPO UK

The conference languages are Portuguese and English.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2026
• Registration opens: 15 June 2026

Registration Fees     

Participation in the conference requires membership of TROPO UK.

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Organiser: TROPO UK

Organising Committee

For further information, please contact: ivconferenceiatropouk@gmail.com

This event is funded by the Coordination of Portuguese Language Teaching Abroad in the United Kingdom and Channel Islands -  Camões IP.       

 IV Conferência TROPO UK