ACTFL AI Corner Classroom: Are Your Students AI Fluent? Moving from Overreliance to Engagement

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center 

Students may know how to use AI, but many still struggle to use it in ways that support meaningful language learning. This session introduces a simple instructional framework for designing AI-supported activities that foster student AI fluency through inquiry, reflection, communication, and critical engagement. Participants will see examples of short language-learning tasks that guide students to ask stronger questions, interact thoughtfully with AI, and use AI as a support for communication rather than answer generation. Participants will also receive a student guide to language learning with AI along with the activity-design framework shared during the session. During the hands-on support session, participants will apply the framework to adapt or create an AI-supported learning activity for their own instructional context.