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Program Name:	Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education
Alternate Name:	PhD in SLA
Program Homepage:	http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/flare/
Institution:	University of Iowa
Address:	1111 University Capitol Center
	The University of Iowa
City:	Iowa City
Zip/Postal Code:	52242
State/Province:	IA
Country:	USA
Application Deadline:	January 15
Contact Person:	Elena Osinsky , Mrs.
Email:	click here to access email
Phone:	319-335-2825
Linguistic Subfield(s):	Applied Linguistics Language Acquisition
Language/Language Family Specialization(s):	Arabic, Standard Chinese, Mandarin French German Italian Japanese Korean Russian Spanish
Program Size:	Medium (11-25 students)
Program Description:	Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is a multidisciplinary field whose goal is to understand the processes that underlie the learning of a non-native language. Second language acquisition draws from a variety of academic disciplines, among them linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, sociology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and education. The Ph.D. in SLA is an interdisciplinary degree offered by FLARE (Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education). Students interested in the Ph.D. must have completed the M.A. in an appropriate field (e.g., Linguistics, Foreign Language Education, TESOL/ESL) or have equivalent academic experience. Admission is for the fall semester and students are admitted on a full-time basis only. The Ph.D. in SLA offered by FLARE focuses on languages other than English. Students may pursue their interdisciplinary interests in courses offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Departments of Asian Languages and Literature, French and Italian, German, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech Pathology and Audiology, and the College of Education Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, and Teaching and Learning. There are more than 20 associated faculty members in these and other departments with whom students may study. Areas of specialization involve Linguistics, Language Program Direction and Technology. For more information, see our website.
Available Financial Aid:	Teaching assistantships are available. These assistantships usually involve teaching elementary or intermediate language courses (other than English as a second language). FLARE also has a limited number of research assistantships. In general, assistantship holders are classified as residents for fee purposes for the terms during which their appointments are held and any adjacent summer sessions in which they are enrolled.

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