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Carvalho, Ana M.
Chair of SLAT; Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Dr. Ana M. Carvalho currently serves as the Chair of the SLAT Program and is a Professor of Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is also a faculty member in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program (SLAT), and holds courtesy appointments in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Linguistics. She has served as the Director of the Portuguese Language Program and as the Graduate Advisor for SLAT. 

Her academic work is rooted in the fields of sociolinguistics, languages in contact, and bilingualism. In these fields, she carries out research mainly related to language variation and change. She is especially intrigued by the development of parallel variable grammars in situations of prolonged language contact on borderlands. 

Dr. Carvalho welcomes students in her classes and in her office who share the same research interests. She also welcomes students interested in all branches of the sociolinguistic dimensions of language studies, including language attitudes, language ideology, code-switching, sociolinguistic corpus building, and the application of LVC methods to language and dialect acquisition. As the Chair of the SLAT Program, she is committed to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and intellectually rich SLAT community.

Outside academia, she enjoys family life, yoga, fiction, traveling, and cooking. 

Most of her publications are available here: https://arizona.academia.edu/AnaCarvalho

Area of Specialization
Socio-cultural dimensions of L2 Learning

Currently Teaching

SLAT 596Y – Proseminar in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

The purpose of the Proseminar is to provide incoming SLAT major and minor students with a forum in which they can acquire knowledge about current major issues in the field of Applied Linguistics and methods applied to investigate them, critically engage with research and scholarship, and develop a stance in relation to these major issues. Please register through the SLAT Program Coordinator.