Conferences

Second International Conference on Language Teacher Education

May 17-19, 2001

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota and conference planning committee members are seeking proposals for papers and symposia on all aspects of the education and professional development of language teachers for the second International Conference on Language Teacher Education to be held May 17-19, 2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 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.

Karin E. Larson, Coordinator, The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota, 617 Heller Hall, 271 19th Avenue So., Minneapolis, MN 55455,

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The 33rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

October 2-6, 2000
Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok and Krabi Province

	October 2-3 at King Ramkhamhaeng the Great Auditorium
	October 4 a trip to Krabi Province
	October 5-6 at a hotel in Krabi Province

The conference invites papers on all aspects of language description, both theoretical and applied, such as: Historical and Comparative Studies; Language Contact and Language Change; Dialectology; Phonetics/ Phonology; Morphology; Syntax / Semantics; Discourse Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Ethnolinguistics; etc.

The First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium

February 1-3, 2001

City University of Hong Kong

Kowloon, Hong Kong

The conference invites papers on the syntax, morphology, and semantics of Modern Chinese, including comparisons with earlier stages of Chinese or other languages and studies of language acquisition related to the acquisition of grammar. This conference is sponsored by City University of Hong Kong, with the following co-sponsors: Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong; East-China Normal University; Linguistic Society of Hong Kong; Peking University and University of Hong Kong. Conference languages are Chinese and English. For further information, contact: