Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC)

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Date
Friday, February 24 to Saturday, February 25, 2012

Attention foreign language teachers!

Please join us for the thirteen annual Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC) on Feb 24-25 at the The University of Texas at Austin. The discounted registration for public school teachers is $35. TexFLEC, is an annual conference that brings together researchers and educators in the fields of foreign language education and this year’s conference focuses on how language classrooms of the future may appear. Language classrooms are rapidly changing with the adoption of new technologies, increased globalization, budgetary constraints, and new research findings with regard to learner factors and identity issues. It is time for language educators and researchers to gather and discuss how these new developments present opportunities and challenges for language education, including:

  • K-16 and adult education in second language, foreign language, bilingual and heritage learning contexts
  • Hybrid classes and online learning
  • New instructional technology resources and tools 
  • Pedagogical approaches to teaching speaking, listening, pronunciation, grammar, reading, and writing
  • Current research into language learner factors such as autonomy, strategies, motivation, affect, etc.
  • Globalization and its effect on language learning
  • Teacher and learner identity
  • Social and cultural contexts and language learning
  • The effect of government policies and especially budgetary constraints on education
  • Other topics related to the future of language education

Guest speakers include: Dr. Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu, Professor of Linguistics and Language Development at San Jose State University and Dr. Carl Blyth, Associate Professor of French Linguistics and Director of COERLL at the University of Texas at Austin.

Click here, to download flyers (Bilingual ed, Foreign language) or learn more at www.texflec.org. Questions about the conference can be direced to texfleccommittee@gmail.com.

Directions and parking info: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/tlc/conferences/texflec_2012/parking…

TexFLEC is proudly sponsored by ESL Services and the International Office, The Foreign Language Education Student Association (FLESA), The Foreign Language Education (FLE) Program, The Texas Language Center (TLC), Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Department of French and Italian, Department of Linguistics, The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), and The Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio.