The purpose of the language teaching symposium is to provide an opportunity for Spanish and other world language teachers at the elementary, secondary, and university levels as well as graduate and undergraduate students to gather together, share ideas and research related to language teaching, and to learn new pedagogical methods.

It will allow us to bring visibility to our language programs, and to our programs that lead to the training of new language teachers for our state and beyond. Target populations for the symposium include language teachers at all levels from Arkansas as well as from surrounding states. We also will encourage attendance for students who study languages as well as those who may be interested in becoming language teachers.