Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education May 14–16, 2015 The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, MN

SAVE THE DATES! Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education May 14–16, 2015 The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, MN 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 Processes of Language Teacher Education This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota and is cosponsored by the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA. The call for papers will be announced soon. Stay tuned! More Information Get on the Language Teacher Education Conference mailing list:www.carla.umn.edu/about/mlist.php Bookmark the CARLA conference website for regular updates:www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/ Check out past Language Teacher Education conferences at:www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/