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Chair of SLATE Program: Susan Gonzo
3070 Foreign Language Building,
707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801;
(217) 333-2353;
E-mail: SLATE@uiuc.edu
Certificate of Advanced Study in Second Language Acquisition and
Teacher Education
SLATE is a multidisciplinary program for doctoral students with
an interest in second language acquisition and second language teaching.
Students cannot earn a Ph.D. in SLATE; instead, students in this
program earn a Certificate of Advanced Study in Second Language
Acquisition and Teacher Education in conjunction with a Ph.D. in
one of the cooperating units.
Students in the SLATE program can work with faculty from a number
of different academic units across the campus. Cooperating faculty
hold appointments in various units in the College of Education and
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, including the following:
Curriculum and Instruction; East Asian Languages and Cultures; Educational
Psychology; French; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Linguistics;
Slavic Languages and Literature; and Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese,
as well as the Division of English as an International Language.
Other units also offer courses relevant to the interests of students
in SLATE.
The SLATE program is designed to meet the individual needs of its
students. The course requirements in the affiliated units are generally
flexible and allow freedom for students to conduct work in specialized
subfields tailored to their academic interests and goals. In recent
years, students have studied such topics as cognitive and affective
factors in second-language (L2) learning and teaching; communicative
competence; computer-assisted language instruction; curriculum development;
L2 reading strategies; psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects
of L2 acquisition; and L2 speech perception and production. What
unifies these various fields of specialization is the rapidly growing
discipline of second-language learning and teaching. SLATE students
must fulfill course requirements in four core areas–linguistics,
psycholinguistics/socio-linguistics, second language studies, and
research methods.
Admission
Because SLATE is not a Ph.D. program, all students in SLATE must apply
to and be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in one of the following units:
Curriculum and Instruction; East Asian Languages and Cultures; Educational
Psychology; French; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Linguistics;
Slavic Languages and Literature; or Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
After being admitted to a doctoral program in one of these units,
preferably during their first semester on campus, students should
complete and turn in to the SLATE program a SLATE program registration
form. At this point, they will be added to the SLATE mailing list
and listserv so they will receive all the information about SLATE
program activities and requirements.Financial AidFinancial aid is
granted only through individual departments. A limited number of teaching
and research assistantships, tuition and fee waivers, and fellowships
are available each year through cooperating departments. Applicants
can indicate their desire for financial aid by checking appropriate
boxes on the application for admission. Financial support for a limited
number of qualified SLATE candidates may also be available through
assignments in the Intensive English Institute, EOP Rhetoric Program,
Language Learning Laboratory, or Office of Student Teaching. Applicants
should contact these units directly for details. The SLATE Executive
Committee itself administers no financial aid. |
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