12th International Language Teacher Education Conference

May 30–June 1, 2024 
The Graduate Hotel 
Minneapolis, MN
 

Invited Speakers

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University 
  Cultivating Land and Water Based Education with Educators, Families, and Communities for Just and Sustainable Futures
• Erin Kearney, SUNY Buffalo
  Envisioning and Embodying Language Teacher Education Change: Praxis for a New Era
• Tracy Quan, University of Colorado Boulder
  Critical Language Awareness and Language Teacher Education: A Hope Towards More Equitable Futures
• Manka Varghese, University of Washington 
  Collectivizing Care in Teacher Education for Multilingual Teachers of Color
   

The mission of this unique conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English as an additional/world language (e.g., ESL, EFL) instruction; world/modern/classical language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; heritage language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages. The conference thus aims to bring together a range of teacher educators to discuss and share research, theory, and situated practices and to initiate and sustain meaningful professional dialogue across languages, levels, and settings on the topic of language teacher education.

Conference Themes
The conference will focus on the following four broad themes:

Conference Sponsors
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota in partnership with the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona; and Professionals in Education Advancing Research and Language Learning (PEARLL) at the University of Maryland. The conference is cosponsored by many units at the University of Minnesota.