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Join SLAT in congratulating Mourad Abdennebi, a 4th-year SLAT PhD candidate, on being elected President of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) for the 2025-2026 academic year! You can read Mourad's candidate statement here. We look…

SLAT is proud to share that 4 of our outstanding PhD students have received Collaborative Teaching Awards through the English Writing Program at the University of Arizona. Huge congratulations to Onur Ural Burns, Mukaddes Coban Postaci, Dilara Avci…

With deep sadness, we're sharing that the University of Arizona College of Education let us know about the passing of Dr. David B. Yaden Jr. on Thursday, March 20, 2025. A beloved colleague, dedicated educator, and pioneering scholar in the…

SLAT is proud to announce that one of our minor candidates, Dee Hunter, has been selected as a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year! Bilinski Fellows are selected from a list of distinguished graduate students…

SLAT is proud to announce that two of our doctoral candidates, Betsy Carter and Angus Leydic, have been selected as Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year! Bilinski Fellows are selected from a list of…

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…