Approaches to Teacher Education in
English as a Foreign Language

May 11-16, 1997 Conference

Innovative approaches to foreign language education have rapidly emerged in the 1990s, challenging the status quo. New technologies for communicating information confront the educational community; new issues such as classroom based research and the movement for content based instruction impact teacher education programs. This conference will provide a forum to share and critique the range of approaches to teacher preparation programs and discuss how the programs have responded to the new and cutting edge issues of the 1990s. The program will offer maximum opportunities for participants to contribute via panels and concurrent sessions. Three 90-minute panels composed of participants will address the following issues: Approaches to Teacher Education, Case Studies in Teacher Education and Foreign Language Teaching and Methods and Teacher Education. Concurrent sessions will be on the following topics: Communication, Case Studies and Teacher Education. Participants will be heads of department of faculties of graduate and undergraduate teacher training colleges, directors of in-service programs for Ministries of Education, and instructors currently engaged in program review, development and evaluation. Those wishing to participate in panels or in concurrent sessions will be required to submit proposed titles and one paragraph abstracts. Application deadline via USIS is March 7, 1997.

Keynoter: Mary Ann Christison, President of TESOL and Professor of ESL and Director of the International Center at Snow College, Utah. Joy Reid, Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wyoming. Theodore Rodgers, Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Hawaii; Director of the Masters Degree Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Fredricka Stoller, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and Director of the Program in Intensive English.

This program was made possible by a grant from the United States Information Agency.