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

Recent News

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Aug. 19, 2024

Check out SLAT's August 2024 Newsletter! You can find it attached below, or through this link: https://arizona.box.com/s/xn4rnhszd514u6wy48swxi8xyof76c4j 

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Aug. 18, 2024

Please join SLAT in congratulating SLAT Ph.D student, Maryah Converse, in being awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship! Maryah will use the fellowship to do doctoral dissertation research in Jordan…

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Aug. 5, 2024

Dr. Ofelia Zepeda, Dr. Sheilah Nicholas, and Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock received a 5-year grant from the Department of Education to fund the new West Region Native American Language Resource Center. This center is one of only four designated by…

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