The Intersection of Applied Linguistics and Technology in Albania: Pedagogical Innovations, Computational Landscapes, and Future Horizons (Published)
The study investigates the extent of the present incorporation of technology in applied linguistics and language education in Albania, a distinct low-resource language context. We explore Albanian higher education institutions’ use of flipped learning, corpus-based methodologies, and communicative grammar education to facilitate greater linguistic competency through a line of study taking into account both CALL and computational linguistics. Simultaneously, the paper looks into some recent developments in Albanian Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as authorship attribution based on machine learning and construction of multi-dialectal corpus from social media sources. Finally, we address the systemic infrastructural, pedagogical, and digital divide barriers that hinder widespread adoption with evidence-based recommendations for policy and research. In the end, sustainable technological integration needs a balanced frame that marries computational innovation and humanistic, student-centred pedagogy.
Keywords: Albanian NLP, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Divide, flipped learning, low-resource language, technology integration