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Announcements:
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
(GURT) 2011 Discourse
2.0: Language and New Media
Dr.
Patrick Rebuschat will be a visiting assistant professor
for the 10-11 academic year, and will terach five SLA-related
classes.
Professor Heidi
Byrnes (German) is President of AAAL
in 2010-11 and Professor Jeff
Connor-Linton (Linguistics) was the AAAL 2009 conference
chair and past President in 2009-10- this is the first time
two Presidents have come sequentially from the same University.
Areas of study for SLA at Georgetown University include:
- Applied cognitive linguistics
- Approaches and methodologies of second language teaching
- Bilingualism
- Brain imaging and the neurobiology of SLA
- Cognitive variables in SLA
- Curriculum construction
- Discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching
- Environmental variation in SLA, including social factors
- Generative approaches to SLA
- Individual differences in SLA
- Input, interaction and SLA
- Instructed SLA
- Models of interlanguage systems
- Psycholinguistics
- Reading, writing and SLA
- Research methodologies in SLA
- Second language assessment practices
- Second language classroom contexts
- SLA and the advanced learner
- Task-based language learning and teaching
- Theoretical issues in SLA
A number of different programs at Georgetown University
offer opportunities to take classes and carry out research
in SLA as part of a range of degrees. Graduate certificates,
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master
of Arts in Teaching, and Doctorate in Philosophy degree
programs are all offered through different departments.
Georgetown University also has a wide variety of research
programs, established annual conferences, and interest groups.
Contributing to the opportunities for interdisciplinary
research collaborations and coursework are the Interdisciplinary
Program in Neuroscience,
the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive
Science and the Center
for the Brain Basis of Cognition (CBBC).
Students who study at Georgetown University have access
to a diverse range of SLA research opportunities, including
the many private and governmental research institutions
in languages and linguistics in the Washington, DC metropolitan
area. For example, many Georgetown SLA students work on
a range of different projects during semesters and breaks
at the Center
for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC.
Georgetown University is also a member of the Consortium
of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area,
and students may take classes at any of the other eleven
institutions in the consortium and have the credits count
towards their Georgetown degrees.
If you have questions about the SLA at Georgetown Web site,
please email the SLA
Webmaster. If you have questions about specific programs,
please email the departments.
Last updated Thursday, November 4, 2010
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