On 7 November 2025, an international conference titled 5th International Youth Conference on Language, Literature and Education: Joining Forces to Build a Better World – Education for Sustainable Development was organized by the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Our students from the Department of English Language Education, Almina URLUOĞLU, Arda Berk ŞENTÜRK, and Emircan ARSLAN, participated in the conference both in person and online.

Arda Berk ŞENTÜRK and Emircan ARSLAN presented the research aims of their study titled “Artificial Intelligence and Pre-Service English Teachers’ Collaboration: A Mixed-Methods Study on AI Awareness and Teacher Development at Marmara University, Türkiye.” Their presentation highlighted the role of artificial intelligence in the professional development of pre-service teachers, how it can serve as a supportive tool in instructional contexts, and the new opportunities that human–AI collaboration may offer for future teaching practices. They also shared findings regarding teacher candidates’ awareness of and approaches to using AI within educational settings.

Almina URLUOĞLU, who joined the conference online, presented her study focusing on the phenomenon of language loss in large language models. The research examined how the self-consumption process—retraining models on the texts they themselves generate—may affect AI language. Guided by the research question “How does repeated self-consumption change an LLM’s language in terms of syntactic and semantic features?”, the study revealed that recurring self-consumption cycles may lead to simpler sentence structures, reduced lexical diversity, and weakening semantic coherence. The presentation concluded with recommendations aimed at preserving linguistic diversity and developing AI models using more balanced data sources.

As the Department of English Language Teaching, we congratulate our students for their valuable academic contributions and wish them continued success.