A forum for all SLAT faculty to meet with the SLAT Chair and find out what’s happening in SLAT, and to address any concerns related to the program and to have questions answered.

Panelists: Dr. Kimberly Jones (University of Arizona), Dr. Beatrice Dupuy (University of Arizona), Dr. Chantelle Warner, Dr. Julieta Fernandez (University of Arizona) Minda Dettman (University of Arizona)

Moderator: Amable Custodio Ribeiro

Please register in advance of the webinar through this link: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdOCtqjkqHtytB8vbKy_QUqELyq…

Panelist Bios

Dr. Beatrice Dupuy is a Professor of French, Public and Applied Humanities, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She directs the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy, a language resource center funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Her scholarship focuses on multiliteracies and multimodality in language education and language educator professional learning.

Dr. Kimberly Jones (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor of East Asian Studies and past Vice Dean of the College of Humanities (2008-2023), and affiliated faculty with the SLAT program. Since 2022, she has been Co-Director of the Department of Defense-funded University of Arizona Language Training Center. A sociolinguist who specializes in both second language acquisition and teaching and Japanese sociolinguistics, she is particularly interested in how the analysis of naturally occurring talk can inform language pedagogy, and in children's language acquisition, attrition, and code-switching.

Dr. Chantelle Warner is Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona, where she is also a Professor of German Studies and a faculty affiliate of the SLAT PhD program. Between 2014 and 2024, she served as Co-Director of the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a National Language Resource Center supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Program.

Dr. Julieta Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Spanish & Portuguese Department and a faculty member in the SLAT PhD program. Her research seeks to advance our understanding of second language teaching and learning in the at-home and study abroad (SA) contexts, with a special focus on pragmatics. Professor Fernández runs the Tucson Applied Linguistics Lab with the help of a Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Seed Grant. She and a group of SLAT colleagues were also recently awarded a CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grant for the collaborative project "A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant training model". And funded by a CERCLL grant, she is co-editing an introduction to contemporary topics in applied linguistics for language educators, which is an open educational resource book designed for in-service teachers.

Minda Dettman is the Research and Award Coordinator in the College of Humanities. They plan and implement workshops on grant-getting and help colleagues navigate the grant application process.

First-year students will have the chance to meet with the SLAT Graduate Advisor and the Major/Minor Area Chairs, along with the SLAT Program Coordinator, to learn about how to transfer courses from their MA programs to the SLAT PhD program. 

Presenters: Dr. Chris Tardy (SLAT Graduate Advisor), Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese (SLAT Chair and LPA Area Chair), Dr. Liudmila Klimanova (Sociocultural Dimensions Area Chair), Dr. Robert Henderson (Linguistic Dimensions Area Chair, Interim Cognitive Dimensions Area Chair), Dr. Mahmoud Azaz (Instructional Dimensions Area Chair), Dr. Jill Castek (TSLT Area Chair), Debbie Shon Buhler (SLAT Senior Program Coordinator)

Welcome back, SLAT community! Come catch up after the long summer! All new SLAT students, continuing SLAT students, SLAT faculty, SLAT alumni, and SLAT visiting scholars are welcome.

This short event will give the new SLAT students the chance to meet their new faculty mentors. Welcome to our new cohort!

This orientation session will give the new cohort an overview of the SLAT program, and information about program and university resources. If you're a new SLAT student and you need the Zoom information, please contact GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu.