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SLAT is thrilled to share that “Narratives of TESOL Professionals: Experiences Navigating the Doctoral Program,” which is co-edited by Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar (SLAT Faculty), Dr. Angel Steadman (Assistant Professor at Highline College, former MA TESL…

Check out SLAT's August 2023 Newsletter! You can find it attached below, or through this link: https://arizona.box.com/s/9jvb3kt47q33ufkybrjdn6gp55rt6ghu

Betsy Carter, a SLAT 3rd-year student, received the 2023 Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York. Betsy received the prize for her translation of an excerpt from Simone Sharbert's novel Rosa in Grau: Eine Heimsuchung. Please go here to…

Congratulations to Dr. Wenhao Diao for receiving a STARTALK Grant for 2023-2025! This award totals $340,206, and will allow Dr. Diao to prepare and implement a summer Chinese immersion camp for students in grads 10 - 12, and the first two years of…

SLAT is proud to announce that three of our wonderful faculty members - Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese, Dr. Chantelle Warner, and Dr. Miquel Simonet, have all received well-deserved promotions to Full Professor. Please join us in congratulating all…

SLAT is proud to announce that Dr. Kathy Short, Professor in the Department of TLS and in the SLAT Program, has been named as one of the newest University of Arizona Regents Professors. The Arizona Board of Regents confirmed the appointment of Dr.…

SLAT is pleased to announce that Dr. Jill Castek (Professor in the Department of TLS and the SLAT Program), SLAT Major students Veronica Oguilve and Onur Ural, SLAT Minor student Yousra Abourehab, and two other University of Arizona students Wen Wen…

SLAT is thrilled to announce that Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the SLAT Program and Program Director for EAL, has won the 2023 American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Second Language…

SLAT is proud to announce that SLAT PhD Candidate, Hanyu Jia, has received a dissertation research grant from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association (NFMLTA) and National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)!…

SLAT is proud to announce that one of our doctoral candidates, Amable Custodio Ribeiro, has been selected as a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year! Bilinski Fellows are selected from a list of distinguished…