Sla phd programs

Visiting Scholars. Fulbright Scholar. Our faculty committee reviews select Visiting Scholar applications from the Fulbright Program. Faculty Invite. International Visitors. Fullbright Scholar. The Center for Language and Culture Learning CLCL supports the University of Iowa faculty, graduate assistants, and students in the teaching, learning, and promotion of language and culture in the Division and beyond.

We maintain an ITC lab of twenty-four computers, where students can work independently; six small group rooms, four equipped with One Button Studio OBS technology, an ASL practice lab, and a living room area with comfortable seating and tables.

The CLCL supports peer tutoring in our less commonly taught languages in the Division; we also oversee the Directed Independent Language Study DiLS program through which independent learners are connected to resources and tutors to learn languages not taught in the Division. Second language acquisition SLA is a multidisciplinary field whose goal is to understand the processes that underlie non-native language learning.

The doctoral program in second language acquisition draws from varied academic disciplines, among them linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, sociology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and education. The SLA doctoral program emphasizes theory, research, and classroom-based teaching and learning. All students take courses in SLA theory, multimedia, research methods, language learning and linguistics. In addition, each student defines an area of specialization, in consultation with a SLA advisor.

The two broad areas of specialization are language learning and postsecondary education, and linguistics and psycholinguistics. Please review its full disclosure statement. Skip to main content. Breadcrumb Home Departments and Programs. As soon as you would like to start taking courses in the minor. Because it is coherent program, you will need to take courses that are required or approved by the SLA Program. Please know that English is usually only offered in Fall semesters and fills up quickly.

Please plan ahead and register early. Please know that courses taken in your home major department may not be taken toward the SLA minor. You will find listings of courses that are available each semester on the SLA website check the PhD Minor dropdown menu. I really love languages, and while studying abroad in Brazil I really got interested on how people acquired langauges and the best ways to do so, since I now am a lot more comfortable speaking Portuguese than I am Spanish, even though I only had one class in the US on Portuguese and then six months in Brazil, while I have been studying Spanish since middle school!

I also wonder about getting my MA at a school that I have a better chance at getting into and then trying for a really good school for my PhD? My upper division GPA is only a 3. I am going to try to answer your questions. So, to answer your question, I do not think it would hurt you at all. If you did well, you could use your higher GPA to become more competitive, especially if you also do some research work with professors. In addition, you could also use Spanish and Portuguese in some form during your dissertation work, thereby incorporating your MA.

I would say that University of Arizona, University of Maryland, and University of Hawaii would be primary choices off of the top of my head. Within SLA there are normally 4 tracks, and depending on the program, you can either mix and match these four tracks or focus on one during your PhD.