Organized by the Linguistics and TESOL graduate students and faculty, TALGS aims to provide a serious yet relaxed environment for graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL and a variety of applied linguistics fields to present their work, receive feedback, and network. The TALGS Conference provides graduate students and TESOL professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, 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.