The interest in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is growing among academic circles, as the technology itself keeps expanding at an unprecedented pace. This rapidly evolving landscape has sparked keen interests among eighteen language faculty members in ten language programs at UVA to explore GenAI’s potential in their courses. The purpose of this initiative is to assess GenAI’s alleged benefits as well as its associated risks in language teaching and learning. This grant will enable world language faculty to use GenAI in language classes to support and enhance their various pedagogical approaches such as open pedagogy, open curriculum, process-driven assessment, personalized and self-directed learning, differentiated instruction, active learning, all while maintaining a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The world language faculty who is willing to explore the dual role of GenAI as a teaching assistant and language tutor would develop interactive activities, with a focus on collaboration with their students. This effort would aim the following two main objectives:

1. Create activities in alignment with learning objectives that would serve as templates for further investigation.
2. Follow and identify innovative trends and strategies for GenAI that could improve second language education.

As a result, this collaborative pilot initiative would yield a wide range of level-specific teaching resources and learning materials, student-centered tasks, as well as formative and summative assessments that would benefit 1,000 students across ten world languages taught at UVA.