SLAT is happy to announce that 3rd-year doctoral student, Wei Xu, has been awarded a Pre-Doctoral Research Grant from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI)! Wei would especially like to thank her dissertation advisor, Dr. Chris Tardy, and her fellow SLAT student, Nina Conrad, for their feedback on her grant proposal.
Congratulations Wei! SLAT is so proud of you!
Theme: Collaboration and social change in world language education and research
The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA) cordially invites you to attend the 22nd SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, in person, at the University of Arizona on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023.
The theme of the 2023 SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable is “Collaboration and social change in world language education and research”. The ideas that feed this theme revolve around the following:
The featured speakers for this year's Roundtable are Dr. Sonja Lanehart (University of Arizona) and Dr. Katharine Burns (Carnegie Mellon University, SLAT Alumna).
The Roundtable is an annual conference organized by and for graduate students and faculty with interests in the linguistic, cognitive, instructional, and socio-cultural dimensions of L2 learning and teaching. We also seek projects that demonstrate collaborative research between graduate students and faculty.
The conference program schedule and updates about the conference can be found on the Roundtable website: https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/22nd-slat-irt-2023/home.
To register for the Roundtable, go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE8EqHTD-n7YSxePiS4cy4EoVA4UwloEbonsA8Y6GV5dTUFg/viewform
Questions about the Roundtable conference can be directed to SLATSA President Giulia Negretto and SLATSA Vice President Amable Custodio Ribeiro.
SLATSA cordially invites you to submit a proposal to present at the 22nd SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, taking place in person at the University of Arizona, on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
The theme of the Roundtable is "Collaboration and social change in world language education and research". Submission categories include individual presentation, projects-in-progress, and posters.
Applications can be submitted through this Qualtrics form: https://lnkd.in/gwykEe7G The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2022. Inquiries can be sent to Amable Custodio Ribeiro (amableribeiro@arizona.edu) or Asya Gorlova (agorlova@arizona.edu).
SLATSA looks forward to your participation!
Congratulations to SLAT Ph.D. candidate Jaime Mejia Mayorga for receiving awards from the AAAL's Indigenous Language Scholarship Support Fund and from the University of Arizona's English Department Graduate Student Research Fund! We're proud of you, Jaime, and we can't wait to see all the wonderful work you'll do with your awards!
Congratulations to SLAT Ph.D. Candidate Amable Custodio Ribeiro, who has received a 2022 Centennial Achievement Doctorate Degree Award from the Dean of Students Office! This award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions of graduate students at the University of Arizona who have shown academic achievement. Well done, Amable!
Dissertation Proposal Title: Transnational Voices: Spanish Heritage Students' Digital Multimodal Narratives from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Beatrice Dupuy (Chair), Dr. Lillian Gorman, Dr. Chantelle Warner, Dr. Emily Hellmich (Special External Member - UC Berkeley), Dr. Blaine Smith (Special External Member - Vanderbilt University)
Dissertation Proposal Title: Examining the Potential of Immersive Virtual Reality for Chinese L2 Pragmatics Acquisition
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Liudmila Klimanova (Chair), Dr. Julieta Fernandez, Dr. Chris Tardy, Dr. Randall Sadler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Dissertation Title: A Multimodal Analysis of Critical Learning Episodes in the EFL Classroom
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Beatrice Dupuy (Chair), Dr. Peter Ecke, Dr. Chantelle Warner, Dr. Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology)
Dissertation Title: How students seek and use writing support: Exploring the spectrum of literacy brokering practices in higher education.
Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Chris Tardy (Chair), Dr. Shelley Staples, Dr. Chantelle Warner, Dr. Sandra Zappa-Hollman
Room location and Zoom link: In-person location - HARV 415, For Zoom information please email ninac@arizona.edu