Second Language Studies, Indiana University

04/13/2021

2014 IU Ph.D. Graduate, Josh Gordan, will be a featured speaker at this year's Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference.

Link to conference information:

Michael Burri (University of Wollongong, Australia) L2 learners’ perceptions and L2 teachers’ practices and cognitions about pronunciation instruction The interplay between L2 learners’ perceptions and L2 teachers’ cognitions (beliefs, knowledge) and pronunciation instruction is complex and ...

04/17/2020

Check out an article in TESOL Connections April edition, written by SLS PhD Candidate John Rothgerber! Congratulations on your work John!

http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2020-04-01/2.html

03/19/2020

In compliance with IU policy and due to the spread of the Coronavirus, all adult ESL classes taught by the Department of Second Language Studies have been canceled for the spring 2020 semester. We thank everyone who attended.

Sincerely,
Dr. Beatrix Burghardt
[email protected]

03/13/2020

Following the recent message from President Michael McRobbie, starting on Monday, March 16 - Monday, April 6 the Department of Second Language Studies and the Office of the Intensive English program will be working remotely. Please know all your questions and concerns will be handled!

Please email [email protected] or call 812-855-7951 for your Second Language Studies questions!

Have a safe and relaxing spring break!

03/12/2020

Important Information regarding the Adult ESL Conversation Classes. Class will meet tonight as regularly scheduled. Next week is spring break and there will be no classes. Please visit our website at dsls.indiana.edu for updates regarding classes after spring break.

02/12/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Senyung Lee, SLS 2019 Graduate for being awarded the 2020 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award for her doctoral dissertation "Examining the underlying constructs of L2 lexical collocation knowledge"

01/28/2020

Wonderful things are happening in the SLS @ IU department!

Congratulations to Professor Isabelle Darcy on receiving a fellowship from the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (IMéRA) in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Professor Darcy will hold a chair in Language and the Brain at the Institute for Language, Communication, and the Brain (https://www.ilcb.fr/) for 10 months beginning this fall.

Bringing together experts in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine and computer science to understand and to model the way that language functions.

01/28/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig on her promotion to Provost Professor. To read about this exciting promotion, please see the attached link!
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/04/iub/inside/19-sonneborn-award-provost-professors.html

01/27/2020

Congratulations to Associate Professor Sun-Young Shin on his award from the IU ASEAN Gateway office!

Dr. Shin will be presenting on English for Specific Purposes in Bangkok, Thailand on June 20, 2020!

01/13/2020

Spring 2020 Colloquium information:

Our first presenter of the semester will be Ph.D. Candidate, Will Allendorfer. He will be giving a job talk on "Situational elicitations: Developing grounded scenarios for pragmatics production studies"

The job talk will be in Morrison Hall 007 from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.on January 17, 2020.

10/10/2019

Exciting news for the Spring 2020 semester:
The 20th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning will be held at IU April 23-25th. For more information visit the website at; http://www.indiana.edu/~pll/paper/

09/27/2019

SLS is now on Instagram! Check us out