CFP: Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century

[Sibelan Forrester]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century:
Sixth International Language Teacher Educator Conference
May 28 - 30, 2009
  The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2008

     Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the 
preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers, 
LTE 2009 will address the education of teachers of all languages, at all 
instructional and institutional levels, and in 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.
     Themes
     The conference will focus on four broad themes:

     Theme I: The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education
     Theme II: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language 
Teacher Education

     Theme lll: Collaborations in Language Teacher Education

     Theme IV: Practices in Language Teacher Education

     Plenary Speakers:

         * Second Language Teacher Education in Times of Change: Jack 
Richards, The Regional Language Centre
         * Teacher Cognition and Communicative Language Teaching: Simon 
Borg, University of Leeds
         * The Moral Lives of Teacher Educators: Bill Johnston, Indiana 
University
         * A Sociocultural Perspective on Language Teacher Education: 
Karen Johnson,  Pennsylvania State University

     Types of Sessions

Symposia (2 hours):
Paper Sessions (25-minute papers)
Discussion Sessions (55 minutes)
Poster Sessions (60 Minutes)

For more information and to submit a proposal, please come to
http://nclrc.org/lte2009

To contact us:
LTE at nclrc.org

Sponsored by
  The National Capital Language Resource Center
Georgetown University
The George Washington University
The Center for Applied Linguistics

and

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
University of Minnesota

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