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When AI meets practiced language policy: multilingual students’ negotiation of monolingual norms in a Canadian afterschool program

Aug 2026 · Language Policy · Vol 25 · 0 citations · 64 references

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Findings show that the pedagogical value of AI is not inherent but contingent on the degree of alignment across nested language policy contexts, demonstrating that technology-mediated equity for multilingual learners depends not only on access to AI tools, but also on the ideological and policy ecologies in which such tools are embedded.

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