Serge Bibauw

I am an Assistant Professor of French Language Teaching at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. I am affiliated with the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS), co-directing the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les pratiques enseignantes et les disciplines scolaires (Cripedis), and co-affiliated with Girsef. I collaborate intensely with researchers at CENTAL, CECL and TeAMM research groups. I am also an associated professor at ITEC, an imec research group at KU Leuven. I was previously a professor at Universidad Central del Ecuador.

I study conversational AI for language learning, or dialogue-based CALL, more precisely task-oriented chatbots (or dialogue systems) for language learning, at the intersection of Task-based language teaching (TBLT), computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and natural language processing (NLP). My research focuses on the instructional design and the evaluation of the effectiveness of conversational AI for L2 proficiency development, particularly L2 vocabulary and fluency, and assessment.