Conference Organizing & Publishing Resources

CARLA's graduate student professional development project, which focuses on academic conferences and publishing, continues the center's long history of supporting teachers building careers in foreign language education. This page has resources that help developing scholars implement a feasible timeline for organizing a conference, publishing a proceedings, and soliciting and reviewing conference abstracts and proceedings manuscripts. There are also links to the published proceedings from the SLA Graduate Student Symposium, a collaboration among the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Conference Planning

• Timeline for Conference Planning (PDF)
• Sample Call for Proposals (PDF)
• Reviewing Abstracts
  • How to review a conference abstract (videos)
  • Abstract scoring rubric
  • Sample conference abstract

Publishing Proceedings

• Timeline for Publishing Conference Proceedings (PDF)
• Sample Call for Proceedings (PDF)
• Reviewing Manuscripts
  • How to review a manuscript (video)
  • Manuscript review rubric
  • Sample manuscript reviews
• Editing Manuscripts
  • Editing tips for authors
  • APA style resources
  • CARLA Working Papers manuscript preparation guidelines (PDF)

SLA Student Symposium Proceedings

Research Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Proceedings of the 2018 SLA Graduate Student Symposium
Edited by Antonio Alejandro Perez Belda, Hadley Galbraith, Kevin Josephs, Angela Pico Pinto, Evelyn Pulkowski, Kezia Walker-Cecil, and Caolimeng Wuxiha

This volume includes six selected papers from the Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium held at the University of Iowa in April 2018. Entirely student-run, the Symposium is an annual conference dedicated to giving student researchers and educators the opportunity to present studies that address current issues in second language acquisition. The Symposium is a collaboration between the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Second Language Teaching and Learning: Diversity and Advocacy
Proceedings of the 2017 Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium
Edited by Monica de la Fuente Iglesias, Zhongkui Ju, Erik Larson, Corinne Mathieu, and Tripp Strawbridge

This volume includes five selected papers from the Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium held at the University of Minnesota in April 2017. Entirely student-run, the Symposium is an annual conference dedicated to giving student researchers and educators the opportunity to present studies that address current issues in second language acquisition. The Symposium is a collaboration between the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.