The Language Educator Symposium is hosted annually by Penn Language Center and co-sponsored by Educational Linguistics at Penn GSE on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, PA. Typically held on a Saturday, this one-day event brings the language teaching community together to explore current issues in the field of language education.
Save the date: The next Language Educator Symposium will take place on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Kislak Center in Van Pelt Library.
Past Themes
- 2023: Artificial Intelligence in Language Education
- 2022: Collaborations for Change
- 2021: Identity and Power in Translation: Whose Language Do You Teach?
- 2019: Service Learning in World Language Education
- 2018: Discourse and Interaction in Language Education
- 2017: Open-Source Learning and the Future of Language Education
- 2016: Developing Intercultural Competence in Language Education
- December 2015: Going Global with Business Languages: Secrets of Success
- January 2015: Active Learning for World Languages: Where, When, and How?
- 2013: Fast Forward: Language Online
- 2012: Advancing Language Education beyond the Classroom
- 2011: Re-conceptualizing the Language Classroom as the Online Course
