The TESOL and World Language Education community includes faculty and students with interests in several areas, including:
- Second-language acquisition
- Language assessment
- Teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL)
- Bilingual and world language education
- Heritage language education
- Less commonly taught languages
- Bi/multiliteracies
- Spanish children's literature
- Multilingual poetry and memoir
- School-university partnerships
- Multicultural education
- Computer assisted language learning
- Language policy
- Bilingual cognition