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Join SLAT in congratulating Angus Leydic, a SLAT 4th-year PhD candidate, who has received a 2025 Centennial Achievement Graduate Student Award. This award is given by the Division of Student Affairs and the Graduate College, and recognizes…

Join SLAT in congratulating Mourad Abdennebi, a SLAT 5th-year PhD candidate, who has received a 2025 Centennial Achievement Graduate Student Award. This award is given by the Division of Student Affairs and the Graduate College, and recognizes…

SLAT is pleased to now have an asynchronous open house video for any prospective applicants to the SLAT program. This video will soon be permanently available through the Admissions Information on our website, but for now it can also be found here:…

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 SLAT Proseminar class on their successful research poster session! Each of the 9 students in the class created a digital poster showcasing their planned research agendas, and presented them to the faculty, students,…

Call for Proposal Volume 32, 2025-2026Language in Motion: Research, Practice, and Innovation Across Linguistic Worlds JSLAT invites scholars at any stage of their academic career to submit original full-length manuscripts to be considered for…

On behalf of the 2024-2025 Co-Editors of the Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (JSLAT), we are very pleased to announce that Volume 31 of JSLAT is now live! Volume 31 can be accessed here: https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona…

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA) cordially invites your participation in the 25th SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable at the University of Arizona on February 13 and 14, 2026. The Roundtable will be held fully…

SLAT is proud to announce that one of our doctoral minor students, Taehyeong Kim, has received one of the inaugural College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence! Taehyeong is a GAT in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. This award…

Check out SLAT's August 2024 Newsletter! You can find it attached below, or through this link: https://arizona.box.com/s/0b61p249kfuomczwfa723dvwuoypu408 

Dr. Ana Carvalho recently stepped down as the Director of the Portuguese Program after several years in the position. Her guidance and impact on her students throughout the years was strongly felt. Many of them created a video to thank her for her…