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

Director, Critical Languages Program

Specialist Faculty, 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

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call for proposals
Friday

Deadline extended!

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The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA) cordially invites your participation in the…

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Friday

Please join SLAT in congratulating Issam Rian, a 4th-year SLAT PhD candidate, on his English Graduate Student Research Fund Award. Issam's award will support his research project "AI-Powered Metacognition: ChatGPT's Influence on L2 Writers' Genre…

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Thursday

Join SLAT in congratulating Asya Gorlova, a SLAT 4th-year PhD candidate, and Onur Burns, a SLAT 5th-year PhD Candidate, who have both received a 2024 Centennial Achievement Graduate Student Award. This award is given by the Division of Student…

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