Join us on Zoom as we welcome our newest cohort of students who will be starting SLAT in Fall 2025! This event is open to all current SLAT students and faculty at the University of Arizona.

Panelists: Dr. Jill Castek, Dr. Jon Reinhardt, Dr. Verónica Oguilve Araya

Moderator: Onur Ural Burns

Panelist Bios

Dr. Jill Castek is a Professor of Literacy, Technology, & Bi/multilingual Learners & STEM Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education, and a faculty member in SLAT, at the University of Arizona. Jill serves as the Technology in Second Language Teaching Graduate Certificate and Ph.D. Minor Advisor for SLAT and works in the areas of Instructional Dimensions and Sociocultural Dimensions for L2 Learning. In 2023, Jill was awarded the Maria Urquides Laureate Award for extraordinary contributions to bilingual education. Her research focuses on learning interactions and digital literacies across communities and instructional spaces. She is the Director of the Digital Innovation and Learning Lab (DIALL) and has worked with CERCLL on the Worlds of Experience for Language Learning (WELL) and the creation and implementation of Virtual Field Experiences.

Dr. Jonathon Reinhardt (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is a Professor of English Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. His research is on the theory and practice of technology-enhanced additional language pedagogy, especially with emergent technologies like social media and digital gaming, digital literacies, language teacher preparation and learning, and critical language awareness.

Dr. Verónica Oguilve Araya completed her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in the SLAT program, with an emphasis in TLS and Technology. She specializes in SLA, focusing on interaction in both in-person and online learning environments. Her research explores teaching and learning in digital literacy processes and equity. She has established connections across various disciplines. She collaborates on multiple projects that connect second language teaching and learning with the interdisciplinary areas of digital literacy. She has worked with the SLAT program, the College of Education at UofA, K-12 schools, and community organizations in Tucson. She has also been involved in CRAFT, a STEM Initiative, working to create a network that supports equitable and innovative approaches in education and research. Currently, Dr. Oguilve Araya is a teacher trainer at Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN), where she teaches in both the Mechatronics major and the EFL major, and at Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) in the Department of Methodology and Assessment for English Language Teaching.

We're sorry, but this colloquium has been postponed until Fall 2025.

Did you know that SLAT has 3 doctoral minors and 2 certificate programs? Are you interested in finding out what the different minors and certificate programs are all about? Then come to our information session! Some of the topics we’ll talk about are:

• The SLAT Language Program Administration Ph.D. Minor
• The SLAT Technology in Second Language Teaching Ph.D. Minor
• The SLAT Ph.D. Minor for non-SLAT major students
• For SLAT major students, how to choose which sub-area you want as your minor
• The Language Program Administration Graduate Certificate program
• The Technology in Second Language Teaching Graduate Certificate program
• Using courses towards more than one Plan of Study

The Zoom link for the session will be posted here by early Spring 2025. Come with your questions, and we hope to see you there! For any questions about the information session, please email the SLAT Program Coordinator, Debbie Shon Buhler at dshon@arizona.edu.

This webinar has been postponed until the Fall 2025 semester. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

This event is for SLAT majors and SLAT minors at the University of Arizona.

Do you want to know more about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process at the University of Arizona? Do you need a refresher on what is needed for IRB applications and research/data collection with human subjects? Join us on Friday, March 1st, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm for Institutional Review Board (IRB) 101, given by Chelsea Quinn, IRB Coordinator in the Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP) Office at the University of Arizona.

Come learn about how to work legally and ethically with human participants in language studies. What training do you need? What guidelines and restrictions are there? Are some people more protected than others? How do you submit your project for review and approval?

All these questions will be answered, and more!

First year students will go through the results of this year's Qualifying Review, and have the opportunity to ask questions and get information to prepare for years 2 - 5 in SLAT. Stay on for the second hour, when there will be a presentation by an IRB representative about how to begin an IRB proposal.

Presenters: Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese (SLAT Chair), Dr. Chris Tardy (SLAT Grad Advisor), Debbie Shon Buhler (SLAT Program Coordinator)