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SLA Faculty

Faculty in the SLA program are nationally and internationally recognized scholars with diverse research interests and areas of expertise.

Core SLA faculty (marked with an asterisk in the list below) are those faculty who advise and direct dissertations, participate in the administration of the SLA program, and teach courses related to SLA. Affiliate SLA faculty and academic staff also teach courses related to SLA, co-advise dissertations, and may serve on administrative committees.

African Languages and Literatures

Antonia Schleicher*

Curriculum and Instruction

Margaret R. Hawkins*
Charles James* (also Department of German)
Mariana Pacheco
Simone Schweber
François Tochon* (also Department of French and Italian)

East Asian Languages & Literature

Naomi Geyer*
Byung-jin Lim
Naomi H. Mcgloin
Junko Mori*
Yongping Zhu

Educational Psychology

Sharon J. Derry

English

Deborah Brandt
Cecilia Ford*
Richard Young*
Jane Zuengler*

French/Italian

Thomas D. Cravens*
Sally Sieloff Magnan* (SLA Co-Director)
François Tochon* (also Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

German

Monika Chavez* (SLA Co-Director)
Charles James* (also Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

Languages and Cultures of Asia

Erlin Barnard
Robert J. Bickner
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Ellen M Rafferty

Linguistics

Monica Ann Macaulay
Thomas C. Purnell*

Psychology

Richard J. Davidson
Jenny R. Saffran

Sociology

Douglas W. Maynard

Spanish and Portuguese

Diana Frantzen*
Rajiv Rao
Catherine Stafford*

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Upcoming SLA Events

Teaching by the Book: Spaces for Creativity and Personalization
Hannelore Jarausch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

4:00 pm, Thursday, November 5, 2009
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue

Language instructors may feel constrained by the pedagogical approach of their program, the syllabus, and most of all, the textbook.  It is challenging to find a balance between  personal teaching style and the materials that instructors work with. learn more>

An invited talk for the 2009-10 Language Institute lecture series, The Pain of Language: Language and Migration.

2010 SLA Graduate Student Symposium: "Who Are We?" SLA in a Global Society
Invited Speaker: Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia

Friday, April 16 - Sturday, April 17, 2010
Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Learn more>

Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison SLA Graduate Student Organization and the University of Iowa Foreign Language and Acquisition Research and Education students.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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