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Welcome to the website for the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The SLA PhD Program is directed by Junko Mori, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature; Margaret Hawkins, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is associate director.
The Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison prepares students to research and teach in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of SLA. Graduates of the the SLA Program pursue careers in many different fields, including linguistics, language planning and policy, language program direction and administration and foreign language teaching. Many of the Ph.D. degree recipients will seek careers in language education or as coordinators or directors of language programs, especially at the post-secondary level. Graduates will also seek positions in Ph.D. programs with an SLA research emphasis. Learn more >
In the News
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SLA PhD Program Honors 2013 Graduate
At a reception on May 17, the SLA PhD Program celebrated the achievement of Brajesh Samarth who successfully completed his PhD in Second Language Acquisition with a dissertation entitled Attrition and Maintenance of Home Languages in the Indian-Diaspora in the United States, under the supervision of Professor Richard Young. Shown here are, left to right, Carolina Bailey, Brajesh Samarth, Professor Young and Alice Astarita. |
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Congratulations to SLA Doctoral Student Işıl Erduyan!
SLA Doctoral Dissertator Işıl Erduyan was chosen this year by the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program and the Department of English for a Teaching Excellence Award.
Congratulations, Işıl!
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SLA Doctoral Student Akira Kondo Awarded a Dissertation Grant
SLA Doctoral Dissertator Akira Kondo (Margaret Hawkins, Advisor) has received a Dissertation grant to support his doctoral dissertation data collection in the United States and Japan from the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation. Akira will be working with Nikkei Brazilians' (Brazilians of Japanese descent) Language Contact, Language Socialization, and Language Learning Processes.
Congratulations, Akira! |
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Congratulations to SLA Doctoral Student Fameh Mirsharifi!
SLA Doctoral Dissertator Fatemeh Mirsharifi has been selected as a 2013 College of Letters and Science Teaching Fellow.
Congratulations to her for winning the well deserved award, one of the highest forms of teacher recognition granted by the College.
Congratulations, Fatemeh! |
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SLA Doctoral Student Nelly Martin Presents at the 12th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference
SLA Doctoral student Nelly Martin presented her paper, Rethinking Code-switching: Voices, Artifacts and Attitudes from Indonesian, as a Second Language Classroom, at the 12th East-Wester Center International Graduate Student Conference, held on February 15-16, 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference hosted 87 graduate students from 41 universities around the world, representing 24 countries.
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SLA Doctoral Student Alice Astarita Awarded a Language Learning Dissertation Grant
SLA Doctoral Dissertator Alice Astarita (Richard Young, advisor) has received a Language Learning Dissertation grant in support of her dissertation study on the foreign language learning experiences of first-generation and/or self-identified working class college students. |
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Congratulations to SLA’s most recent graduate, Dr. Carolina Bailey!
Carolina Bailey successfully completed her PhD in both SLA and Linguistics with a dissertation entitled English Native Speakers’ L2 Acquisition of the Clitic Se, under the supervision of Professors Catherine Stafford and Yafei Li.
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