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

5
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

Co-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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Roundtable
Oct. 9, 2024

The SLAT Roundtable is a free annual conference organized by SLAT graduate students, and held for graduate students and faculty from any university with interests in the linguistic, cognitive, instructional, and socio-…

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Oct. 8, 2024

SLAT is pleased to share that 4th-year SLAT PhD Candidate, Mourad Abdennebi, was asked to give a speech at the United Nations General Assembly reception in September 2024. The reception was hosted by NGO CorpsAfrica, which Mourad has volunteered…

Oct. 4, 2024

The Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (JSLAT), which is run by SLAT students and a SLAT faculty advisor, has been invited to be indexed in the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). The ERIC database is an online digital…

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