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Professor
Cristina Sanz wins Mildenberger prize for edited book on
second language learning with contributions from Georgetown
colleagues.
Professors Kendall
King and Alison Mackey publish popular interest book on
child second language learning with HarperCollins.
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
- Development and models of interlanguage systems
- 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
- Psycholinguistics
- Reading, writing and SLA
- Research methologies 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, such as the Foreign Language Initiatives in Research and Teaching (FLIRT) group, which is a cross-linguistic, faculty-graduate student research collaboration that aims to strengthen research, teaching, and learning of foreign languages at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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 Wednesday, 22 August, 2007
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