Virtual Symposium: Equity and Well-being as Goals and Frames for SLA Research

The next symposium from the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program at The University of Arizona is co-sponsored by the English Applied Linguistics (EAL) Program at the U of A. 𝗗𝗿. 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗮 (Georgetown University) will be giving a Zoom talk titled “𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗟𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟳𝘁𝗵, 𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 – 𝟱:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 (𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲). Please use this link to see what time it will be in your local time zone. https://tinyurl.com/SLATColloquium.

➤➤➤The Zoom link for the talk is: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89787188443. Please see the graphic for the abstract!

𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗮 (she/ella) is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her main area of research is in second language acquisition. She is best known for her award-winning meta-analysis of second language instruction in 2000, her best-seller textbook 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2009, translated into Mandarin in 2016), and for championing a bilingual turn in SLA. She co-edited, with Annick De Houwer, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Lourdes is the General Editor of 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. She was President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in 2023-2024. She is the 2026 recipient of the AAAL Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award.

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