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), and Gina Fimbres-Leon Guerrero (IRB Intake Coordinator)

The first-year SLAT major and minor students will present their Research Agenda posters in this final class presentation of the semester. All SLAT faculty and students are welcome to attend!

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.

The Zoom link for this meeting will be send out in late August 2023 to the SLAT Faculty listserv.

Panelists: Dr. Blaine Smith (Vanderbilt University), Dr. M'Balia Thomas (University of Arizona), Dr. Theresa Catalano (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Dr. Christelle Palpacuer Lee (Rutgers University)

Moderator: Lorraine Turpault d'Huve, 1st year SLAT student

Panelist Bios:

Blaine Smith is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University. Her scholarship focuses on the multimodal processes of bi/multilingual youth and supporting teachers with integrating digital literacies in the classroom.

M’Balia Thomas is a Critical Applied Linguist, an Associate Professor for the English Applied Linguistics Program at the University of Arizona, and an alumna of the SLAT PhD program at the University of Arizona. For the past year, she has been engaged in Digital Humanities work to recover, showcase and liberate from the depths of newspapers the testimonial injustices that occur to marginalized populations surrounding their language/use. She uses an interdisciplinary set of tools (discourse analysis, stylistics, text mining and more) to uncover these injustices and the everyday creativity that people adopt in response.

Theresa Catalano holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona and is Professor of Second Language Education/Applied Linguistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research is grounded in (multimodal) critical discourse studies and focuses on social inequality and its relation to language/visual communication. In addition, she incorporates arts-based approaches to research that focus on the development of interculturality in teacher education, including dance storytelling and Forum Theater.

Christelle Palpacuer Lee is an Associate Teaching Professor in Language Education at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. In this role, she prepares community-engaged language educators as scholars, teachers, and advocates committed to equity, social justice, and solidarity in language education and beyond. Her work is situated at the intersection of language teacher education, the arts, and community engagement. She investigates the tensions and possibilities of knowing in informal spaces of learning through place-based, material, and multiliteracies pedagogical approaches. She conducts this collaborative and participatory work locally and internationally, at the museum, in virtual environments, and in community-based settings. Her work has been published in Foreign Language Annals, the L2 Journal, the International Journal of Multilingual Education, the NECTFL Review, and Language Teaching Research.

Register for the webinar ahead of time here: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfuuqqz4iG9TAISVVUYSpxtbd-v…

Panelists: Dr. Brian Hibbs, Dr. Angel Steadman, Dr. Kayo Shintaku, Dr. Bonnie Holmes

Moderator: Mariana Centanin Bertho

Panelist Bios:

Dr. Federico Fabbri is the Director of Language Instruction in the Italian Language Program at the University of Minnesota. A recent graduate in the Ph.D. program in SLAT at the University of Arizona, his main academic interests are in Language Program Administration. In addition to working at several initiatives in Curriculum Design and Materials Development, he is also involved in projects on L2 Enrollment and Retention, OERs, and L2 Autoethnography. 

Mariana Centanin Bertho is a 5th-year SLAT doctoral candidate in SLAT at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation is on oral development of learners of Portuguese. She does research in learner corpus and applications to teaching. She has been an instructor of Portuguese and also develops teaching materials for less commonly taught languages and language program evaluation instruments. 

Amable Custodio Ribeiro is a 5th-year doctoral candidate in SLAT at the University of Arizona. As a PhD student, she has been involved in research projects, leadership roles, and has presented at various conferences, including Arizona TESOL, Penn TESOL, TESOL International, AAAL, and AILA. She has been nominated for awards and has received numerous grants, such as the GPSC ReaP Grant to partially fund her dissertation research and the prestigious Bilinski Fellowship. Currently, Amable is completing her dissertation focusing on language teacher identity and professionalization of English teachers.

Wei Xu is a 4th-year PhD doctoral candidate in SLAT at the University of Arizona, where she also works as the Graduate Assistant Director for the International Foundations Writing Program. Her research revolves around genre studies, multilingual writing, and multimodal composition.

This event has unfortunately been cancelled. Please email GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu for more information.

Panelists: Dr. Brian Hibbs, Dr. Angel Steadman, Dr. Kayo Shintaku, Dr. Bonnie Holmes

Moderator: Mariana Centanin Bertho

Panelist Bios

Brian Hibbs, Ph.D., (SLAT 2014) is an Associate Professor of Education at Dalton State College. He teaches courses in Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, and Culture and Education to prepare elementary education teacher candidates to work with English learners in their own instructional contexts. His scholarly interests include applied linguistics, education prep, faculty development, intercultural competence, language teaching methodology, SLA, study abroad, and SoTL.

Kayo Shintaku (SLAT 2018) is a faculty member at the Dept. of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and a coordinator of the Japanese Language and Cultural Studies Program at Villanova University. Her research interests include technology-mediated L2 pedagogy and learning, autonomous and self-directed learning, and literacy practices with entertainment media, such as digital games, anime, and manga.

Dr. Bonnie C. Holmes (Ph.D., SLAT 2017) is a language learning specialist and Associate Professor of Spanish at Southern Oregon Univ., a small, public liberal arts institution in Ashland, Oregon. She teaches courses in language, bilingualism, language acquisition, and teacher education, and has interdisciplinary affiliations with the MAT & SLI graduate programs, and English, Education & TESOL undergrad programs. Her particular research focus is critical and transformative pedagogy in language education, and she specializes in high-impact practices such as service-, project- and place-based learning, and equitable language education for Heritage/Latinx learners.

Dr. Angel Steadman (SLAT 2020) is a full-time faculty member at Highline College in Oregon, in the English Language, Career, and Academic Prep (ELCAP) department, specializing in ESOL.

This webinar has been canceled. We're sorry for the change in schedule.

Panelists: Dr. Betul Czerkawski, Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Anuj Gupta

Moderator: Wei Xu, 4th-year SLAT PhD Candidate

Panelist Bios:

Dr. Betül Czerkawski is a professor of instructional design and technology at the Applied Computing Department of the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST). She is also a faculty member in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program. Her research interests include learning experience design, emerging learning technologies, and foreign language instruction.

The #4 Influencer in Voice AI, Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is an AI, Data, and Analytics Leader internationally. She is the Founder and CEO of Clarity AI. She is the Founder, President, and x-CEO of Women in Voice, nonprofit with 20+ chapters and 56k+ followers. With 10+ years of technical experience at Nuance, OneReach.ai, Netavox, and VERSA, she has hands-on experience in building and optimizing AI. She is a CES and VentureBeat speaker. She holds a PhD and MA and lives in Seattle, WA.

Anuj Gupta is a PhD candidate in the RCTE program, a UX researcher, a technical writing educator, and a Data Science and Digital Scholarship Fellow at the University of Arizona. His research and teaching agenda focuses on designing, analyzing, testing, and teaching language technologies to create transformative learning experiences that promote diversity, inclusion, and empowerment for diverse audiences. You can find out more about his ongoing research projects by visiting his website at https://bit.ly/40LONpt 

Please register in advance of the webinar by filling out this form: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduGrqjIiH9e6_YssUCiW5gqyQg…;After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for the webinar. You’ll also be able to submit advance questions for the panelists within the registration form.

We look forward to seeing you on September 21st at 4:00 pm (Arizona time)!

Colloquium Title: Embodied Ecological Multilingual Language Learning and Teaching

Abstract: Traditionally, language learning has been viewed as a cognitive activity--as occurring in the mind/brain. Since the beginning of "the social turn" in second language acquisition studies (Block, 2003), however, this view has come into question. In this talk, I present an "alternative" approach to multilingual language learning and teaching that views them primarily not as the extraction and internalization/inculcation of linguistic knowledge, but as the progressive integration of organism and environment. The key idea is that we learn as we live, not in order primarily to think, but in order to productively act in our ecosocial environments, including classrooms.

Concepts underlying this general idea include: alignment (how humans, among other organisms, attune to their environments; embodiment/multimodality (how learning and teaching involve the whole body and all the senses, not just the brain); we-processes (that learners and teachers can act as a single ecological unit in the classroom) and natural pedagogy (how teaching based-learning is likely a biological endowment of the human species).

These fairly radical ideas will be concretely explored and illustrated using videos from a single ESL classroom in Australia. Like its topic, this presentation will be multimodal and multisensory--it will be the opposite of a formal "talking-head" type presentation.