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The SLAT doctoral program is an interdisciplinary program with 79 faculty members located in 17 collaborating departments. The program is designed to provide rigorous advanced training for researchers, teachers, and administrators concerned with second language learning and teaching.  The SLAT Program has been recognized nationally as a superior interdisciplinary program. Several of our participating departments have been ranked in the top ten in the country, including Anthropology, East Asian Studies, Linguistics, and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

   

HAPPENING NOW

COLLOQUIUM SERIES

The last SLAT Colloquium of the semester presents Professor Sonia Shiri discussing the signs and Facebook posts from the Tunisian Revolution:

Subversive Multimodal Discourses in Multilingual Contexts: Slogans, Protest Signs and Facebook Posts from the Tunisian Revolution

Friday, April 20

Education 308
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

If you would like more information about the colloquium series, visit our Colloquium Resources page. You may also visit the full Spring 2011 Colloquium Series Schedule here.

Looking for a language tutor? We regularly get this question in the SLAT office.  You may hire a SLAT graduate student for one-on-one language instruction.  Please see the Language Tutors page.

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS 

  • SLAT has recently compiled an alumni listserv to circulate announcements and our new newsletter.  Please contact the office at (520) 621-7391 or GIDP-SLAT@email.arizona.edu if you would like to be added to the Alumni list. 
  • The February 2012 edition of the SLAT Alumni Connection newsletter is now available!  We welcome you to read about our alumni, students and other news.

NEWS FROM OUR ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS

  • The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) announced their Summer 2012 Workshop Series, taking place at the University of Arizona from May 29-June 8. Learn more about these two-day workshops, which help you apply research to your real-world language classroom!
  • The Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) offers a variety of tutoring options to help improve English language writing, grammar, testing and presentation skills.  See www.cesl.arizona.edu or email esltutor@email.arizona.edu for more information.
  • Online Basic TEFL Program at CESL:   The University of Arizona's Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) is an established leader in English language teacher training with decades of experience in the US and abroad.  In the coming months, CESL will once again be administering its unique online teacher training course for certification to 'Teach English as a Foreign Language' (TEFL).  Visit http://www.cesl.arizona.edu/TeacherTraining.htm for details. 

Last updated: 16 Apr 2012