October 21, 2021 & December 8, 2021
Houston, TX
Speaker Series—Defining Latinx in the U.S.: Language, Race, and Ideology
This Speaker Series focuses on the relations between language ideologies, race, and sociopolitical power to understand their effect on how we conceptualize Hispanic/Latinx identities in the U.S. and also, how Hispanics/Latinx define themselves in the context of a changing U.S. social context. Plenary speakers: Ofelia Garcia, Jennnifer Leeman, Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella.
June 18-19, 2021
Houston, TX
6th Annual CLIC Conference
After COVID: Language, Diversity, and Social Justice
The goal of the conference is to propose and critique new perspectives on the creative use of diverse linguistic and multimodal resources to construct various identities, maintain personal relationships, accomplish a range of professional tasks, and sustain or subvert cultural and gender norms in the digital world. A special volume with selected papers from the conference along with invited papers will be published by de Gruyter in 2025.
October 10 – 11, 2020
Houston, TX
5th Annual CLIC Conference (In online format only)
Diversity across settings of language use & learning: Identity, culture, and gender
The 5th Annual CLIC Conference focuses on the description, analysis and development of a multidimensional definition of language and language acquisition shaped by the diversity of social settings in which language is used.
April 12 – 14, 2019
Houston, TX
4th Annual CLIC Conference
Beyond Validity: Social and Ethical Consequences of Assessment
Analysis of the social and ethical consequences of assessment practices in second language education, ranging from macro-level perspectives, such as language ideology, to micro-level perspectives, such as classroom interaction. A special volume with selected papers from the conference along with invited papers was published by Routledge in 2023: Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing: Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice.
May 4 – 5, 2018
Houston, TX
3th Annual CLIC Conference
Assessing Speaking in Context: New Trends
Assessment of interactional dynamics of language use in properly contextualized situations of language use. A special volume with selected papers from the conference along with invited papers was published in 2021: Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications (Multilingual Matters, 2021).
February 10 – 11, 2017
Houston, TX
2nd Annual CLIC Conference
Understanding the Study Abroad Experience
Analysis of students’ interactions outside the classroom in SA settings. Selected papers have been published in a special issue of the journal Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education (John Benjamins, 2019).
April 29 – May 1, 2016
Houston, TX
1st Annual CLIC Conference
Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence
Implementation of teaching and testing procedures informed by the construct of L2 interactional competence during the first two years of L2 learning. Selected papers from the conference were selected to be part of the volume titled Teaching and Testing Interactional Competence (Routledge, 2019).
