Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Welcome to SLAT

The SLAT Program is recognized nationally as a superior interdisciplinary program. It is designed to provide rigorous advanced training for researchers, teachers, and administrators concerned with second language learning and teaching.

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SLAT has an interdisciplinary focus

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Colleges

19
Departments

4
Majors

 

Welcome to the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Ph.D. program at the University of Arizona!  SLAT is home to some of the most innovative and creative work around teaching multiple languages to multiple types of students in multiple contexts.  We hope you will find resources throughout this site to explore opportunities to apply to study with us or to start a collaborative research partnership or engagement initiative with us.

I invite you to explore this website. For a quick reference, you may download our SLAT PhD Program brochure. I encourage you to reach out to us by emailing your questions and ideas to SLAT's Program Coordinator, Debbie Shon Buhler, or to me.

Suzanne Panferov Reese, Ph.D.

Chair, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Associate Specialist Professor, Public and Applied Humanities

Contact our Office


(520) 621-7391

GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu 

1103 E. 2nd Street, Harvill 241
Tucson, AZ 85721-0076

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Debbie Shon Buhler
Program Coordinator, Senior

dshon@arizona.edu

Recent News

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SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Anh Dang, has been awarded a Dissertation Research Grant from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) for her project "…

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SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Issam Rian, has been awarded a Dissertation Research Grant from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) for his project "Metacognitive Judgments of L2…

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SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Mourad Abdennebi, has received a dissertation research grant from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association (NFMLTA) and National…

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