Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar receives 2024 Mentoring Future Scholars Award

Nov. 4, 2024

Join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar for being named one of the recipients of the 2024 Mentoring Future Scholars Award, which is bestowed by the University of Arizona. Dr. Kayi-Aydar is an Associate Professor in SLAT and the Department of English, and her research works with discourse, narrative, and ESL pedagogy, at the intersections of poststructural SLA approaches and interactional sociolinguistics. Her specific research interests are identity (re)construction and language learning/teaching, positioning, agency, membership, and power in classroom talk and teacher/learner narratives. Her most recent work investigates how language teachers from different ethnic and racial backgrounds construct professional identities and how they position themselves in relation to others in contexts that include English language learners.

Read more about Dr. Kayi-Aydar's award here: https://universityevents.arizona.edu/person/hayriye-kayi-aydar-phd 

Michelle Vonie's Dissertation Defense

SLA in the Digital Wilds: Fandom in a Second Language

When
Noon – 1 p.m., Dec. 13, 2024
Where
Private Defense

Dissertation Title: SLA in the Digital Wilds: Fandom in a Second Language

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Jon Reinhardt (Chair), Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Dr. M'Balia Thomas

 

SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable

A student-planned roundtable conference for all SLAT community members, and students and faculty from other universities

When
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Feb. 8, 2025
Where
Pacheco ILC - University of Arizona

The SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable is a student-run annual conference at the University of Arizona. The conference is open to scholars around the world, and the topics that are usually covered fall under the different Second Language Acquisition and Teaching areas of specialization (Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning, Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, and Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning).

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. Registration is free, and the deadline to register is January 21, 2025.

 The theme for this year is “Interdisciplinarity in Language Research, Leadership and Pedagogical Practices”. We will be hosting our plenary and keynote talks by Dr. Béatrice Dupuy and Dr. Theresa Catalano, alongside a diverse lineup of individual presentations, projects-in-progress, workshops and a poster session.

 All presentations will be held in the Integrated Learning Centre (ILC) at the University of Arizona, Tucson main campus.

 REGISTER HERE

 The conference program schedule will be finalized soon. Stay tuned, and please regularly check the Roundtable official website for upcoming updates.

 Feel free to contact Lorraine Turpault d'Huvé (lorrainetdh@arizona.edu) and Subin Oh (osubin@arizona.edu) with any questions.

 Thank you for your participation. We look forward to seeing you in Tucson in February!

Attachments
Roundtable Registration Poster

SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable

A student-planned interdisciplinary roundtable conference for all SLAT community members, and students and faculty from other universities

When
Noon – 5 p.m., Feb. 7, 2025
Where
Pacheco ILC - University of Arizona

The SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable is a student-run annual conference at the University of Arizona. The conference is open to scholars around the world, and the topics that are usually covered fall under the different Second Language Acquisition and Teaching areas of specialization (Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning, Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, and Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning).

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. Registration is free, and the deadline to register is January 21, 2025.

 The theme for this year is “Interdisciplinarity in Language Research, Leadership and Pedagogical Practices”. We will be hosting our plenary and keynote talks by Dr. Béatrice Dupuy and Dr. Theresa Catalano, alongside a diverse lineup of individual presentations, projects-in-progress, workshops and a poster session.

 All presentations will be held in the Integrated Learning Centre (ILC) at the University of Arizona, Tucson main campus.

 REGISTER HERE

 The conference program schedule will be finalized soon. Stay tuned, and please regularly check the Roundtable official website for upcoming updates.

 Feel free to contact Lorraine Turpault d'Huvé (lorrainetdh@arizona.edu) and Subin Oh (osubin@arizona.edu) with any questions.

 Thank you for your participation. We look forward to seeing you in Tucson in February!

Attachments
Roundtable Registration Poster

Mourad Abdennebi gives speech at United Nations General Assembly Reception

Oct. 8, 2024
pictures from UNGA

SLAT is pleased to share that 4th-year SLAT PhD Candidate, Mourad Abdennebi, was asked to give a speech at the United Nations General Assembly reception in September 2024. The reception was hosted by NGO CorpsAfrica, which Mourad has volunteered for in the past. Mourad's speech focused on how volunteering service helped him find his passion for language teaching and learning, and led him to pursue his PhD in SLAT. While at the reception, Mourad was able to meet with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and the former President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. 

Congratulations on this achievement and honor, Mourad!

Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (JSLAT) indexed in ERIC Database

Oct. 4, 2024

The Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (JSLAT), which is run by SLAT students and a SLAT faculty advisor, has been invited to be indexed in the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). The ERIC database is an online digital library sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic database of education research, enhanced by full text when permission is granted by the publisher, or links to the publisher. 

ERIC is available at https://eric.ed.gov, and can be use used as an efficient tool for educators, researchers, and the general public to locate education research journal articles, books, and other literature from multiple sources.

Congratulations to Kate Shea (JSLAT Senior Editor), Dilara Avci (JSLAT Junior Editor), and Dr. M'Balia Thomas (JSLAT Faculty Advisor)!

Wei Xu awarded the Comrie Interdisciplinary Fellowship

Oct. 22, 2024
Wei Xu picture

Please join SLAT in congratulating SLAT Ph.D. Candidate Wei Xu, who has received the Andrew C. Comrie Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Doctoral Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year! This fellowship is awarded to one outstanding GIDP doctoral student who is performing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. Wei's research focuses on rhetorical practices of student writers' from diverse ethnic, sociocultural, and multiple native language backgrounds. Using a series of innovative technologies, she has captured data on how the students, in real time, tap into their first languages in the composing process.

You can find out more about the Comrie Fellowship and Wei's research through the GIDP website: https://gidp.arizona.edu/ay25-comrie-fellowship-recipient-wei-xu-slat-p…;

Asya Gorlova awarded TIRF 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grant

Sept. 30, 2024
Asya Gorlova picture

Please join SLAT in congratulating Asya Gorlova, a 4th-year SLAT PhD candidate, on her TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Asya's dissertation explores the knowledge, experiences, and ideologies of ESL teachers in adult refugee and migrant-serving programs across the U.S. Based on her research, she will develop evidence-based training materials to support teachers and enhance learning for refugee migrant English learners.

More information about this year's TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant and its awardees can be found here: https://www.tirfonline.org/announcing-tirfs-2024-ddg-awardees/

The 19th Symposium on Second Language Writing

Ecologies of Multilingual Writing

When
All Day, Nov. 14 – 16, 2024
Where
The University of Arizona

The 19th Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW2024) will be held November 14-16, 2024 at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. This year’s theme is Ecologies of Multilingual Writing.

Local Organizing Committee

Christine Tardy, University of Arizona, USA
Shelley Staples, University of Arizona, USA
Dwight Atkinson, University of Arizona, USA

Plenary Speakers

Amanda Kibler, Oregon State University, USA
Raffaella Negretti, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University, USA

Invited Colloquia

Ecologies of multilingual writing in world language classrooms
Organized by Bruna Sommer-Farias, Michigan State University, USA

Ecologies of multilingual writing: An interactive colloquium
Organized by:
Dwight Atkinson, Arizona State University, USA
Jeroen Gevers, UCLA, USA
Elena Taylor, Utah State University, USA

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