The NéALA 2025 conference "the Natural and the Artificial in Applied Linguistics: a time of paradoxes" will take place from 25 to 27 June 2025 at the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France).

Following on from the last conferences of the Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée: CRELA 2013, TRELA 2015, PRELA 2019, AILA 2023 - NéALA 2025 aims to examine the shift between the natural and the artificial in applied linguistics. This link may be perceived as an opposition, an interdependence, a complementarity or even a transformation which may require a critical scientific analysis. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT formulating credible answers has plunged the world into wonder on the one hand and panic on the other, undermining the place of human creativity. What is really going on? What role can applied linguistics play?

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