TALGS Conference

TALGS 2025 – TESOL & Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference

February 8, 2025
Greensboro College campus, Greensboro, NC, in the Cowan Humanities Building

Conference -TALGS keynote speaker for 2025
2025 TALGS Keynote speaker: Dr. Ekaterina Sudina

Ekaterina Sudina (Ph.D., Northern Arizona University) is Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, College Park. At the core of her research is the exploration of individual differences in second language acquisition from two perspectives: applied psychometrics and methodological synthesis/meta-analysis. Her work has been published in several prominent journals (e.g., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly) as well as edited volumes. She is strongly committed to research ethics and open science practices. In addition to her prior appointment at East Carolina University, she has taught English, French, and Russian in the US and abroad.


The TESOL / Applied Linguistics Graduate Students (TALGS) Conference is an academic event organized by Linguistics and TESOL graduate students and faculty at East Carolina University and Greensboro College. We at TALGS aim to provide a serious but relaxed environment for you, our fellow graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL/FL and other applied linguistics fields, to present your work, receive feedback, and network with others. The TALGS Conference exists to provide graduate students as well as TESOL and other Foreign Language professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, Spanish, French, German, DLI, and more) a forum to showcase your research and successful teaching practices and to learn from those of others.

Sponsored by Greensboro College’s Department of English and East Carolina University’s Department of English


Call for Proposals

We welcome cross-disciplinary proposals with relevance to language use, language learning and/or teaching from a variety of fields, including, for example, English studies, education, discourse studies, foreign languages, anthropology, communications, sociolinguistics, psychology, and sociology. Proposals reporting on action research (inside and outside the classroom), works in progress, submissions based on successful term projects, pilot research, as well as proposals for discussion sessions, workshops, and posters are welcomed. Presentations requiring computer facilities can be accommodated. Multiple proposals will be considered. For more information and to submit your proposal, visit our website or contact the TALGS team at talgs@ecu.edu.

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024

Early Bird Preregistration Deadline: January 15, 2025

  • $20 for ECU and Greensboro Community
  • $30 for all others

Onsite registration:

  • $30 for ECU and Greensboro Community
  • $40 for all others

We at TALGS are committed to bettering the educational experiences of language learners in the community by providing a comfortable environment where interaction between theory/research and practice/teaching is possible.

Our 2025 conference marks the ninth year of collaboration between the Department of English at East Carolina University, the MA TESOL Program at Greensboro College, and Carolina TESOL.


Contact

Location

Cowan Humanities Building, Greensboro College Campus, Greensboro, NC 27401

Joshua Fitzgerald photo

“I loved the GC Honors program and Greensboro College. I felt safe and a sense of genuine belonging at the college. I worked closely with my thesis advisor and professors who helped inspire me to define my path and passion of interest. That path has led me to my doctoral studies in Engineering Mechanics.”

- Joshua Fitzgerald, Class of ’19, Mathematics Major

Joshua currently studies astrodynamics at Virginia Tech University and is an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. Candidate.