Language Over Lunch: Language Institute Brownbag Series
The Language Institute is pleased to announce the, bi-weekly brownbag series in the Spring 2013, Language Over Lunch, scheduled for Mondays from 12:00-1:00 pm in 1322 Van Hise Hall. The brownbag series is intended to provide a forum for faculty, staff and students from many departments and programs on campus to share and discuss current research projects, teaching innovations and topics of shared professional or academic interest. Stay tuned for details about Spring 2013 Language Over Lunch brownbag presentations and panel discussions.
2012-13 Language Institute Lecture Series: Language, Cognition and Sociality
The Language Institute's 2012-13 lecture series will explore some fundamental questions regarding language acquisition and socialization: What could we learn from studies of bilinguals about the effect of language and culture on cognition? How do language and other semiotic resources work together in the manifestation of human sociality across languages and cultures? Invited talks lectures are by Dwight Atkinson, Purdue University; Charles Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles; Sandra Thompson, University of Santa Barbara; and Steven Thorne, Portland State University and University of Groningen. Learn more >
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 Students Kick Off Fall Semester
Incoming SLA students Amy Clay and Colleen Hamilton are taking a full load of courses in their first semester at UW-Madison.
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 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>
SLA Co-Chair Richard Young is Featured Guest on Wisconsin Public Radio Program
Incoming SLA students Kazeem Sanuth, Sandrine Pell, Nelly Martin, and Leah Wicander are taking a full load of courses in their first semester at UW-Madison.
SLA PhD Program Honors 2011 Graduates
At a reception on May 13, the SLA PhD Program celebrated the achievement of students who completed the PhD in SLA in the Spring 2011: Jacques Arceneaux, María del Carmen De Avila, and Peter De Costa. Shown here are, left to right, Jacques Arceneaux, Sally Magnan, Peter De Costa and Jane Zuengler.
Badger Bash at 2011 Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Chiago
Many UW-Madison faculty, students and alumni met gathered at the 2011 AAAL Conference in Chicago in March. Shown here are Peter De Costa, Kerrie Kephardt, Kimi Nakatsukasa, Michele Back,Atsushi Hasegawa. Mary Jane Curry, Hanh Nguyen, Richard Young.
SLA Doctoral Student Peter De Costa Publishes Articles on SLA and Immigration
SLA Doctoral Student Chiharu Shima Awarded Univers Foundation Grant
SLA Doctoral Student Chiharu Shima has received a major research grant from the Univers Foundation to support fieldwork for her dissertation on the socialization of foreign healthcare providers from the Philippines and Indonesia into Japanese health care practices.
