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Date: April 23, 2015 at 1:27:47 PM CDT

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Do you…



    •    Teach preservice K–12 language teachers?

    •    Prepare TAs to teach language at the post-secondary level?

    •    Provide professional development for practicing language teachers at any level?



If so, this conference is for you!



Regular Registration Deadline is May 7! <http://carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/registration.html>



Changes and Challenges in Language Teacher Education:

Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education



May 14–16, 2015

The Commons Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA



Full conference program now available!<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/schedule.html>



This unique biennial conference focuses on the needs of those who prepare and provide professional development for language teachers. Its broad mission addresses 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; 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.



Featured Plenary Speakers<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/speakers.html>





  *   Stories of Linguistic and Cultural Resilience: What Heritage Language and ESL Teachers Need to Know

Maria Carreira, Professor, California State University, Long Beach



  *   Sharing the Destination: The Role of Assessment in Student and Teacher Development

Fernando Rubio, Associate Professor, University of Utah



  *   Mediating the Learning of Teachers of Languages: Towards an Interpretive, Reflective Orientation

Angela Scarino, Associate Professor, University of South Australia



  *   Living Critical Sociocultural Theory in Classroom Practice

Annela Teemant, Associate Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis



More Information



General conference information:

<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/>www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/>



Registration information:

<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/registration>www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/registration<http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2015/registration>



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This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota with partial funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language Resource Center program. The conference is organized in partnership with the National Heritage Language Resource Center<http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu/> at UCLA.



The conference has also received generous support from the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at The University of Arizona, and the following University of Minnesota partners: College of Education and Human Development; College of Liberal Arts (Office of the Dean and Office for Undergraduate Education); Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch; Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Global Programs and Strategy Alliance; Immigration History Research Center; and the Second Languages and Cultures Education Program.



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The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)

Global Programs and Strategy Alliance

University of Minnesota



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