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Bridging Contexts,
Making Connections
Fifth International Conference on
Language Teacher Education
May 31–June 2, 2007
Radisson University Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers, this conference will 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 four broad themes:
Conference Information
Conference Sponsors:
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research
on Language Acquisition (CARLA), with partial funding from the
U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language Resource Center
Program. The conference
is also supported by the University of Minnesota's College of Education
and Human Development (CEHD), College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Graduate
School, and European Studies Consortium (USC).
Conference Planning Committee:
Mike Anderson (Chair, CLA, University of Minnesota)
Martha
Bigelow (CEHD, University of Minnesota)
Maggie Broner (St. Olaf College)
Heidi Brynes (Georgetown University)
Tara Fortune (CARLA, University of Minnesota)
Kim
Johnson (Hamline
University)
Catherine
Keatley (National Capital Language Resource Center)
Carol Klee
(CLA and USC, University of Minnesota)
Anne Lazaraton (CLA, University of Minnesota)
Charlotte Melin (CLA, University of Minnesota)
Constance Walker (CEHD, University
of Minnesota)
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