(M)other Tongue: Students react to video translations of self

This paper presents phase 2 of the (M)other Tongue project, which seeks to analyse the relevance of AI-assisted video-translation of the self for additional language (Lx) development. Seeing oneself speak a foreign language fluently could have effects on self-perception, the image of the ideal L2 self (Dörnyei, 2009), motivation and other affective states, as well as on the perception and even the production of the language, particularly concerning pronunciation. Taking an AI-modified video of oneself as a model of a good speaker of a foreign language could have an influence on the acquisition of that language. This phase studies fourteen francophone first-year university students' reactions, as collected via an online questionnaire, to seeing an AI-translated video of themselves speaking English fluently and explores their willingness to use such tools for learning purposes. While reactions ranged from "disturbing" to "proud" and "happy", all felt that seeing these translations encouraged them in pursuit of their learning of the language.