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Feb. 26, 2024
Congratulations to SLAT Candidate Wei Xu for winning the Best Poster Award Pre-Doctoral Grant at the SBSRI Research Showcase! Wei's poster, titled "Exploring Multilingual Genre Knowledge Development in a Foundations Writing Course", was awarded on…
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Nov. 30, 2023
SLAT is pleased to share that Dr. Mahmoud Azaz has been chosen as the new Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona. His new position will begin on January 1, 2024. Dr. Azaz is an Associate Professor in…
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Nov. 28, 2023
SLAT is thrilled to announce that Dr. Miquel Simonet, SLAT Faculty and Spanish & Portuguese Faculty, has been recognized with the Chatfield Outstanding Tenured Researcher Award, from the University of Arizona's College of Humanities. Dr. Simonet…
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Nov. 17, 2023
SLAT is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ana Carvalho (Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and SLAT) is one of this year's winners of the Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award. This is the highest award bestowed by the Graduate College…
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Nov. 15, 2023
The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA) cordially invites your participation in the 23rd SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable at the University of Arizona. The Roundtable will be held on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. The…
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Oct. 4, 2023
Dr. Mahmoud Azaz, Associate Professor in MENAS and SLAT, has recently published his new book Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic: Contextualized Input, Output, and Conversational Form-Focused Instruction of Agreement Asymmetries. The…
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Sept. 20, 2023
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…
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Aug. 18, 2023
Check out SLAT's August 2023 Newsletter! You can find it attached below, or through this link: https://arizona.box.com/s/9jvb3kt47q33ufkybrjdn6gp55rt6ghu
July 10, 2023
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…
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July 10, 2023
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…