Language Institute Lectures on iTunesU

Audio podcasts of all the Language Institute's invited lectures in 2011-12 are available on iTunesU! Learn more >

2012 SLA Graduate Student Symposium

The SLA graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with the SLA graduate students at the University of Iowa held an annual SLA Graduate Student Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, April 13-Saturday, April 14, 2012. A total of 105 SLA faculty, staff, and graduate students attended the symposium. Graduate students in SLA and related disciplines presented their work and met distinguished researchers including the three plenary speakers: Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark, Alister Cumming, University of Toronto, and Agnes Weiyun He, Stony Brook University.
The theme of the 2012 symposium was Language Choice and Choosing a Language. Papers presented included choice of language, the decision to use a specific form or code during an interaction, and how these specific forms are determined by social context. Some of the presentations were completed projects, some were presented as posters, and others were based on pilot studies, pre-dissertation studies, or work-in-progress projects.

SLA Doctoral Students Akira Kondo and Brajesh Samarth Awarded 2012 Summer Chancellor's Fellowship

SLA Doctoral Dissertators Akira Kondo and Brajesh Samarth have been awarded 2012 summer Chancellor's Fellowship for their graduate studies. They are among a select group of scholars being offered this prestigious award. We commend them on their accomplishments.

"Free Falling" into Literature: Advanced Students of Italian

SLA Doctoral Dissertator Barbara Bird, presented the results of her dissertation pilot study on Monday, March 20, 2012. SLA faculty and students, language teachers, as well as those interested in Foreign Language literature teaching and Second Language Acquisition attended the presentation.

SLA Doctoral Student Chiharu Shima Awarded one-semester Dissertator Fellowship

SLA Doctoral Dissertator Chiharu Shima has been awarded a one-semester dissertator fellowship by The Arts and Humanities division through the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This fellowship was awarded to support her dissertation on “Language Socialization Process of Foreign Healthcare Providers in Japan”.

Betsy Tremmel wins AAAL graduate student award

SLA Doctoral dissertator Betsy Tremmel has won the Wilga Rivers Graduate Student Award for her presentation at the 2012 AAAL Conference in Boston. Betsy will present her paper "Nocardia Bacteria, Negative Controls, and Risk Ratios: The Co-construction of Disciplinary Identity in a Dairy Science Seminar" at 2:35 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

SLA PhD Program Featured in Language Teaching

Thanks to the efforts of SLA PhD students and alumni Peter De Costa, Carolina Bernales, and Margaret Merrill, under the supervision of Professor Richard Young, the research activities of SLA faculty and students is highlighted in a 2011 volume of the journal Language Teaching. <Learn more>

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