CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline
Voice and Vision in Language Teacher
Education
Fourth International Conference
Radisson-Metrodome Hotel
Featured speakers at the conference will include:
Marilyn Cochran-Smith (
Heidi Byrnes (
B. Kumaravadivelu (
Catherine Snow (
The fourth International Conference on Language Teacher
Education welcomes proposals for papers and symposia on all aspects of the
education and professional development of language teachers. Papers and
symposia may report on data-based research, theoretical and conceptual
analyses, or best practices in language teacher education.
The mission of the 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; 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; and
* Processes of Language Teacher Education
Proposals are more likely to be accepted if they address one
of these themes.
The deadline for submission of proposals for papers and
symposia is
More information and on-line submission instructions can be
found at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2005/call.html
Questions? Email the planning
committee at: lteconf@umn.edu
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
619 Heller Hall
271 19th Ave S.
Minneapolis,
email: lteconf@umn.edu
ph: 612-626-8600
fax: 612-624-7514
website: http://carla.acad.umn.edu