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!

Title of Colloquium: The dynamics of usage-based L2 development

Dr. Marjolijn Verspoor is a Professor Emerita of English Language and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Groningen, and Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia in Hungary. Her academic career started out as an ESL teacher in the U.S., and she wrote two textbooks for ESL students. After completing her PhD at Leiden University on a topic in theoretical syntax with a usage-based perspective, she moved to the Netherlands, where she first started teaching English for Academic Purposes at the University of Groningen and eventually moved more to the Linguistics courses in the program. 

About 15 years ago, she helped set up a Masters in Applied Linguistics program in Groningen, where she worked closely with her colleagues on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) and became very interested  in studying L2 development from a Dynamic Usage Based (DUB) perspective. At the same time, she supervised several Masters and Doctoral theses in teaching English, French, Dutch, and German from a DUB perspective. In her work she has always combined the theoretical (Cognitive Linguistics, Usage Based Linguistics, and CDST) with the practical implications for L2 teaching and development.

To register for the colloquium, please go to: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucumsrzIrH9VQ-BIuGMnDdplDnlT4F5k- 

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!

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Facilitated by: Dr. Ken McAllister (Associate Dean for Research - College of Humanities)

Please email GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu to register for this workshop.

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!

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!