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

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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Congratulations to Dr. Chris Tardy, Professor of English and SLAT Faculty at the University of Arizona, on her recently published book! Teaching Second Language Academic Writing, part of the Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching series, is…
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Feb. 10, 2025
SLAT is thrilled to announce that 4th-year SLAT PhD Candidate, Mourad Abdennebi, won 1st place at the 2025 Grad Slam Competition! Grad Slam is a campus-wide competition for the best 3-minute graduate student presentation of a research, creative, or…
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Feb. 4, 2025
Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, Associate Professor in Russian and Slavic Studies and faculty in SLAT, on receiving a 2024 Innovation in Language Program Direction Award from the American Association of University…

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