***PROPOSALS NOW CLOSED***
The 25th Annual Texas Language Education Research (TexLER) Conference is now accepting proposals. This year’s conference will be a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions.
Proposal Submission Opens: July 07, 2025
Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025- EXTENDED TO AUGUST 30, 2025
Notified by: August 22, 2025- Extension proposals notified by September 6, 2025
Venue: UTSA Downtown Campus
Registration Deadline For Presenters: September 15, 2025
Registration Deadline For Attendees: October 1, 2025
Conference Date: October 18, 2025
TexLER unites scholars and educators from diverse contexts who strive to connect research findings to classroom practices, thus shaping the future direction of language education. TexLER welcomes research studies and practice-oriented presentations that clearly establish strong connections between theory and practice in diverse contexts. Our goal is to offer an interdisciplinary forum for all those interested in research findings with implications for the language classroom as well as those interested in pedagogical approaches to language learning grounded in empirical findings. The theme for this year’s conference is:
Reclaiming Community Narratives in the 21st Century
The Texas Language Education Research Conference at UTSA invites proposals from undergraduate students, graduate researchers, educators, and community and international scholars whose work explores the intersection of language, literacy, and power. This year's theme, Reclaiming Community Narratives in the 21st Century, calls for critical inquiry into how language and literacy practices shape, and are shaped by, the sociopolitical landscapes of our time.
In recent years, we have witnessed intensifying efforts to standardize knowledge, constrain educational dialogue, and obscure the lived realities of historically marginalized communities. These movements have profound implications for how language is taught, learned, and politicized across classrooms and communities. This conference seeks to bring together voices that challenge dominant narratives, uplift community-based knowledge, and investigate how language and literacy can serve as tools for reclaiming space, history, and identity.
We welcome submissions that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Proposal Submission Opens: July 07, 2025
Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025- EXTENDED TO AUGUST 30, 2025
Notified by: August 22, 2025- Extension proposals notified by September 6, 2025
Venue: UTSA Downtown Campus
Registration Deadline For Presenters: September 15, 2025
Registration Deadline For Attendees: October 1, 2025
Conference Date: October 18, 2025
TexLER unites scholars and educators from diverse contexts who strive to connect research findings to classroom practices, thus shaping the future direction of language education. TexLER welcomes research studies and practice-oriented presentations that clearly establish strong connections between theory and practice in diverse contexts. Our goal is to offer an interdisciplinary forum for all those interested in research findings with implications for the language classroom as well as those interested in pedagogical approaches to language learning grounded in empirical findings. The theme for this year’s conference is:
Reclaiming Community Narratives in the 21st Century
The Texas Language Education Research Conference at UTSA invites proposals from undergraduate students, graduate researchers, educators, and community and international scholars whose work explores the intersection of language, literacy, and power. This year's theme, Reclaiming Community Narratives in the 21st Century, calls for critical inquiry into how language and literacy practices shape, and are shaped by, the sociopolitical landscapes of our time.
In recent years, we have witnessed intensifying efforts to standardize knowledge, constrain educational dialogue, and obscure the lived realities of historically marginalized communities. These movements have profound implications for how language is taught, learned, and politicized across classrooms and communities. This conference seeks to bring together voices that challenge dominant narratives, uplift community-based knowledge, and investigate how language and literacy can serve as tools for reclaiming space, history, and identity.
We welcome submissions that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Language ideologies and their influence on educational policy and classroom practice
- Histories and legacies of linguistic marginalization
- Storytelling, oral traditions, and multimodal literacies in community contexts
- Archival resistance and community-based counter-histories
- Language and literacy education as a site of critical consciousness and transformation
- Ethnographic, critical, or participatory approaches to documenting community narratives
- The role of educators and researchers in co-constructing inclusive educational futures