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SLA Doctoral Majors

In the 2009-10 academic year, twenty-six students in the SLA program are taking courses, preparing for preliminary exams, or writing dissertations. Many present their research at scholarly conferences and publish their work in academic journals.

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Alice Astarita	Terry Andrews	Jacques Arceneaux	Daniel Audaz
Carolina Bailey	Carolina Bernales	Barbara Bird	Anne Dargent
Peter DeCosta	Maria del Carmen De Avila	Christine Elliott	Isil Erduyan
Shenika Harris	Atsushi Hasegawa	Suyeon Kim	Akira Kondo
Yang Liu	Aree Manosuthikit	Margaret Merrill	Aeree Nam
Fatemeh Mirsharifi	Paula Garrett-Rucks	Jennifer Robinson-Morgan	Brajesh Samarth
Chiharu Shima	Betsy Tremmel	Sandra Terra

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

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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.