[EDLING:321] CFP: Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline November 30, 2004

Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education
Fourth International Conference

June 2-4, 2005
Radisson-Metrodome Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Featured speakers at the conference will include:

Marilyn Cochran-Smith (Boston College), keynote speaker
Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University)
B. Kumaravadivelu (San Jose State University)
Catherine Snow (Harvard University)

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
November 30, 2004.

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 at tc.umn.edu

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