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Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Borbala (Borbi) Gaspar on her Spring 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gaspar is a SLAT faculty member, a lecturer in the French & Italian…

Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Osman Solmaz, a 2015 SLAT Alum, on receiving the 2025 TESOL Teacher of the Year Award! Dr. Solmaz is an Associate Professor at Dicle University, in Turkiye. A Fulbright alum, he has conducted professional…

Join SLAT in congratulating Mourad Abdennebi, a 4th-year SLAT doctoral candidate, on his win at the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition at the 2025 Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS)! The 3MT Competition requires participants to present…

A huge congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese, Chair of SLAT, on receiving the 2025 TESOL James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL! This award was established by TESOL to acknowledge outstanding and extended service by a TESOL member…

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…

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…

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…

Please join SLAT in congratulating one of our PhD Candidates, Issam Rian, on receiving a AAAL Graduate Student Award! The Graduate Student Award is a merit-based award that supports the attendance of AAAL graduate student members at the…

Join us in congratulating SLAT PhD candidate Hui Wang for winning a 2025 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award! The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) supports and promotes the teaching and study of composition, rhetoric,…

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA) cordially invites you to attend the 24th SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, held in person at the University of Arizona on Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8, 2025.…