We look forward to seeing you soon! 

Are you attending the conference for the first time?  One first time attendee form will be randomly drawn to be refunded for the conference! To apply, fill out this first-time attendee stipend application form HERE.

View AWLA 2025 Conference At A Glance HERE!

There are two pre-conference workshops on Friday, 1/31 from 1-2:50. Choose one to attend (additional $25):

*All Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees must bring their own laptops to the workshop. 

Pre-Conference #1: AI-Powered Language Teaching: Recharge Your Teaching, Empower Your Students

Discover how AI can revolutionize your language teaching experience. This interactive workshop will explore a variety of AI tools and strategies to help you create engaging and effective language lessons that increase student proficiency while decreasing your planning time.

Presented in English by Chrissy Roe (ACTFL, SCOLT)

Audience Level: K-12 & Higher Ed

Content: Participants will be encouraged to make activities for their own classroom while learning to use AI resources. Slides will be used to guide the presentation and provide an easy to follow outline.

Pre-Conference #2: Interpersonal Communication with a Silent Twist!

Looking for a way to effectively incorporate interpersonal communication in your classroom? In this session, participants will participate in and learn how to seamlessly implement "The Silent Conversation" in World Language classrooms alongside interpretive and presentational modes of communication.

Presented in English by Chelsea Lawrence (AATSP, ACTFL, SCOLT)

Audience Level: Pre-K, K-12, & Higher Ed

Content: Participants will engage in a Silent Conversation themselves, Presentation slides, discussion, Q&A, workshop time for creating materials for a Silent Conversation in their own classroom.

IMPORTANT TERMS & CONDITIONS:

All attendees, including exhibitors, must be registered for the conference. All payments including Purchase Orders (POs) and checks must be received before access can be granted to the event. Membership dues must be paid prior to registering.

If paying with a check, it should be made payable to AWLA. Please include identification information along with the check to ensure that the proper parties are credited for payment. Check payments should be sent to:

Alabama World Languages Association 

Attn: Chase Krebs

5991 USA Drive North

Mobile, AL 36608

REFUND POLICY:

Registration is non-refundable. Refund requests will be considered for extraordinary circumstances only and will be credited at the discretion of the Executive Board. The Executive Board reserves the right to deny refund requests for any reason.