News: 8th TALGS (TESOL/ Applied Linguistic Graduate Students) Conference

Hello everyone, Becky here! I am forwarding info about a conference you may be interested in attending. Enjoy!

The 8th TALGS (TESOL/ Applied Linguistic Graduate Students) conference will be held at East Carolina University on Saturday, February 19, 2011. All conference information is available at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs.

TALGS aims to provide graduate students and TESOL/other Foreign Language professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, Spanish, French, German, DLI, etc.) a forum to showcase their research and successful teaching practices. This year’s plenary speaker will be a distinguished scholar and educator, Dr. Ofélia García, Professor of Urban Education at the City University of New York. The conference will feature paper, workshop, discussion, and poster presentations on a variety of topics related to language use, language learning, and/or language teaching. Continuing Education Units for NC public school teachers will be available.

Advantageous "Early Bird" Conference preregistration at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/registration.cfm
ends January 19, 2011; all preregistration ends February 1, 2011. Registration on site will be available.

Please share this information with your colleagues, students, and/or contacts in K-12 schools.