The purpose of the Second Language (L2) Research Special Interest Group (SIG) is "to promote research in second-language learning/acquisition and to facilitate the exchange of ideas among educators involved in second language teaching and language program administration."
April 2023
Welcome to the Second Language Research SIG website!
We also enjoyed a strong presence at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago, from April 13-16 and online from May 4-5 around this year’s annual meeting theme, Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth. In addition to our engaging roundtable, paper, and symposium sessions, we hosted three in-person cornerstone events: a Pre-Conference Mentoring Session, La Pachanga, (co-sponsored with the Bilingual Education Research, Latina/o/x Research, and Language and Social Processes SIGs) and our Business Meeting during which we celebrated our 2023 SLR SIG awards recipients:
Leadership Through Research Award: Dr. Manka Varghese, University of WashingtonMid-Career Award (co-recipients): Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, University of Arizona & Dr. Becky Huang, The Ohio State University
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Dr. Caitlin Fine, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Graduate Student Travel Awards: Cameron Smith, Doctorant / Ph.D. Candidate, Faculté d’éducation / Faculty of Education, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa &
Xuan Zhou, Ph.D. Candidate | Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
Congratulations also to our conference registration sponsees:
Graduate student recipientsZahra Golneshan, Educational Research, Language and Literacy Program, Werklund School of Education University of Calgary
Jessica McConnell, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Adnan Mohamed, College of Education, Washington State University
Early-career scholar recipientsMimi Masson, Ph.D., Professeure adjointe / Assistant Professor, Département de pédagogie, Faculté d'éducation, Université de Sherbrooke
As I close out my term as SLR SIG Chair, I want to thank our 2021-2023 leadership team:
Program Chair/Chair Elect: Dr. David Nieto, Northern Illinois University
Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Chris Chang-Bacon, University of Virginia (2022-2023); Dr. Carrie Symons (2021-2022)
Newsletter Editor: Dr. Zhongfeng Tian, University of Texas San Antonio (2022-2023); Dr. Christina Ponzio (2021-2022)
Membership Chair: Dr. Laura Hamman-Ortiz, University of Rhode Island
Graduate Student Representative: Marisol Massó, Michigan State University
Webmaster: Dr. Hyonsuk Cho, University of North Dakota
Social Media Coordinator: Dr. Angela Nissing, Montgomery College (2022-2023); Dr. Chris Chang-Bacon (2021-2022)
Finally, I am excited to pass the baton to our incoming leadership team for the 2023-2025 term!
Chair: Dr. David Nieto, Northern Illinois University
Program Chair/Chair-Elect: Dr. Kongji Qin, New York University
Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Kevin Wong, Pepperdine University
Membership Officer: Dr. Melinda Martin-Beltran, University of Maryland, College Park
Newsletter Editor: Dr. Leah Shepard-Carey, Drake University
Student Representative: Vashti Wai Yu Lee, Michigan State University
Saludos, Liv
Liv T. Dávila (livtd@illinois.edu)SLR SIG Chair, 2021-2023
SLR SIG Officers (Click on the name to know more about each officer)
SLR SIG Chair: Liv T. Dávila
Program Chair: David Nieto
Secretary/Treasurer: Chris Chang-Bacon (2022-2023), Carrie Symons (2021-2022)
Newsletter editor: Zhongfen Tian (2022-2023), Christina M. Ponzio (2021-2022)
Membership officer: Laura Hamman-Ortiz
Student representative: Marisol Masso
Webmaster: Hyonsuk Cho
Social media coordinator: Angela Nissing (2022-2023), Chris Chang-Bacon (2021-2022)
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