International Language Teacher Education Conference
May 30 – June 1, 2019
The Graduate Hotel
Minneapolis, MN
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The mission of this unique biennial conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; heritage language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages. The conference aims to bring together teacher educators from these many contexts to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices and to initiate and sustain meaningful professional dialogue across languages, levels, and settings.
The conference will focus on the following four broad themes:
- The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education
- Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education
- Collaborations in Language Teacher Education
- Practices of Language Teacher Education
The full schedule is online.
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota in partnership with the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators, the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy at the University of Arizona, and the Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research at Georgia State University.
The conference has also received generous financial support from many units at the University of Minnesota (College of Education and Human Development; College of Liberal Arts Language Center; Graduate School; Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch; Department of French and Italian; Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; and the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance).
