The primary purpose of this study is to critically examine ethical challenges arising from integrating AI into language education. While tools such as large language models, machine translation, automated writing feedback, and speech recognition offer gains in personalization, language development, and efficiency, their rapid adoption raises several ethical concerns. Six challenges are discussed: data privacy and security, academic integrity, overreliance on AI, algorithmic bias, and widening educational divides tied to access and digital literacy. Drawing on recent empirical findings and theoretical insights, this paper also underscores risks such as the erosion of critical thinking, challenges to academic honesty, exclusion of diverse linguistic identities, and exacerbation of inequities. To address these challenges, the study proposes a multi-faceted framework comprising robust data protection, bias-aware language practice, human-AI collaboration, process-oriented instruction, and teacher training. These measures aim to foster a responsible and ethical approach to AI use, ensuring that AI supports equitable, inclusive, and effective language learning and teaching while preserving the inherently social and humanistic nature of language education.

The purpose of this paper was to introduce positive psychology, to the fields of SLA and English education in Korea. Positive psychology investigates how people flourish and seeks the virtues and strengths of humans. It focuses on the factors enabling people and their communities to thrive, instead of focusing on psychological disorders and abnormalities, longstanding issues of general psychology. Its three main research topics include positive emotions, traits, and institutions, all of which have relevance to SLA and L2 education. This paper examined how these topics have been approached in SLA. Much attention has focused on positive emotions, particularly, enjoyment, which has gained momentum in recent years with publications. Empirical studies of the impacts of positive emotions on L2 learning were reviewed with discussion of enjoyment. The paper concludes by discussing directions for future research, applying positive psychology to Korean EFL contexts.