Dissertation Proposal Title: Why study Romance Languages in the U.S.? Investigating and Addressing the Enrollment and Retention Crisis in U.S.-based Romance Language Programs

Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Beatrice Dupuy (Chair), Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese, Dr. Dwight Atkinson

This is a hybrid proposal presentation. To attend in-person, Federico will be presenting in Harvill 234. To attend remotely on Zoom, please email Federico at ffabbri@arizona.edu to get the Zoom information.

This workshop, led by Dr. Adriana Cimetta (University of Arizona - Educational Psychology Department), will give an introduction to quantitative methodologies and skills that are necessary for conduction quality research in education and related social science fields. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide an overview of how to design quantitative studies that address important and current educational issues, gather data to shed light on these issues, analyze data, and derive conclusions based on the analyses. The strengths and limitations of various educational research designs and the types of instruments used to measure educational outcomes will be discussed as well.

This workshop will be in a hybrid format. Please contact GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu to register and get the location/Zoom information.

Two of SLAT's 5th-year PhD candidates Sophie Park and Rachel Floyd, will be hosting weekly SLAT Working Efficiency Sessions (WES) this semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Zoom. Any University of Arizona SLAT major or minor student who is at any point in their doctoral program can attend this low-stakes work session, and focus on achieving academic goals while working with and getting to know other students in the program.  

Sessions will be held each week until the end of the Fall 2022 semester. The recurring Zoom link for the sessions is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87230744506 No advance registration necessary – just show up and start writing!

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

Two of SLAT's 5th-year PhD candidates, Sophie Park and Rachel Floyd, will be hosting weekly SLAT Working Efficiency Sessions (WES) this semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Zoom. Any University of Arizona SLAT major or minor student who is at any point in their doctoral program can attend this low-stakes work session, and focus on achieving academic goals while working with and getting to know other students in the program.  

Sessions will be held each week until the end of the Fall 2022 semester. The recurring Zoom link for the sessions is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87230744506 No advance registration necessary – just show up and start writing!

Two of SLAT's 5th-year PhD students, Sophie Park and Rachel Floyd, will be hosting weekly SLAT Working Efficiency Sessions (WES) this semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Zoom. Any University of Arizona SLAT major or minor student who is at any point in their doctoral program can attend this low-stakes work session, and focus on achieving academic goals while working with and getting to know other students in the program.  

Sessions will be held each week until the end of the Fall 2022 semester. The recurring Zoom link for the sessions is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87230744506 No advance registration necessary – just show up and start writing!

Moderator: Hongni Gou, 4th-year SLAT PhD Candidate

Panelist Bios

Dr. Brian Hibbs is an Associate Professor of Education/ESOL at Dalton State College. He teaches courses in applied linguistics, language teaching methodology, and culture and education. His professional interests include second language acquisition, teacher intercultural competence, and study abroad. He graduated from SLAT in 2014.

Dr. Anna Kamenetski, a SLAT Alumna, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arctic University of Norway. She is currently studying cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism.

Dr. Aleks Novikov is a recent graduate from the SLAT Program. He has taught introductory linguistics and quantitative theory and methods courses at the Oxford College of Emory University as a Visiting Professor. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. His academic interests include register variation and genre-based pedagogy, L2 Russian syntactic and morphological complexity development, corpus-informed pedagogy and Data-Driven Language (DDL), Task-Based Language teaching (TBLT), and more generally, usage-based approaches to L2 language learning and teaching. 

Dr. Jennifer Slinkard, a SLAT Alumna, is an Assistant Professor and the Core Director of English at Eastern Oregon University. She teaches first-year and applied linguistics courses to undergraduate students, and her professional interests include L2 writing and language policy.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlf--gqjwqHtVV-enxBKlm3UF78LsLxeuK

Two of SLAT's 5th-year PhD candidates, Sophie Park and Rachel Floyd, will be hosting weekly SLAT Working Efficiency Sessions (WES) this semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Zoom. Any University of Arizona SLAT major or minor student who is at any point in their doctoral program can attend this low-stakes work session, and focus on achieving academic goals while working with and getting to know other students in the program.  

Sessions will be held each week until the end of the Fall 2022 semester. The recurring Zoom link for the sessions is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87230744506 No advance registration necessary – just show up and start writing!

Two of SLAT's 5th-year PhD candidates, Sophie Park and Rachel Floyd, will be hosting weekly SLAT Working Efficiency Sessions (WES) this semester on Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Zoom. Any University of Arizona SLAT major or minor student who is at any point in their doctoral program can attend this low-stakes work session, and focus on achieving academic goals while working with and getting to know other students in the program.  

Sessions will be held each week until the end of the Fall 2022 semester. The recurring Zoom link for the sessions is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87230744506 No advance registration necessary – just show up and start writing!