Organized by the Linguistics and TESOL graduate students and faculty, TALGS aims to provide a serious but relaxed environment for graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL/FL and a variety of applied linguistics fields to present their work, receive feedback, and network. The TALGS Conference provides graduate students as well as TESOL and other Foreign Language professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, Spanish, French, German, DLI, etc.) a forum to showcase their research and successful teaching practices. TALGS is committed to bettering the educational experiences of language learners in the community by providing a comfortable environment where an interaction between theory/research and practice/teaching is possible. For the first time, TALGS was hosted by Western Carolina University in February 2012. Our collaboration will continue with TALGS 2013 held at ECU and TALGS 2014 once again hosted by WCU.

The following gallery honors our keynote speakers from previous years. Have fun learning about them and their interesting work!