The 21st Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW) was held from October 23 to 25 at the Howard Civil Service International House in Taipei. The theme of this year’s symposium was Second Language Writing Teacher Education in the AI Era. Since the theme of this special issue of Foreign Language Studies is AI and Writing, I invited several L2 writing colleagues, who attended SSLW2025, to contribute their reflections of the conference to this report to compliment the special issue. Besides this year’s conference, they have attended SSLW many times over the years, making them especially qualified to provide insightful commentary. Following a brief introduction of SSLW and this year’s conference, I will introduce the four contributors, and their topics in this reflection. Please refer to the Research Note for their contributions.


DOI:10.30404/FLS.202512_(42).0006