Second Language Studies

Welcome to the SLS Ph.D. Program at Michigan State University

Message from the Director

Welcome to the Ph.D. Program in Second Language Studies (SLS) at Michigan State University. The SLS Ph.D. Program incorporates a number of disciplines and provides students with a firm foundation in a range of approaches. A cornerstone of our program is student-faculty interaction, whether in the classroom as students further their knowledge and develop their skills in the discipline or outside the classroom in joint research projects. Students graduate with an outstanding skill set that allows them to contribute to the ongoing scholarly debates in the field and become leaders in the broader discipline and in their future place of employment.

We encourage you to contact us at marshro3@msu.edu should you have further questions.

Susan Gass
University Distinguished Professor
Director, Second Language Studies

News

Hiep Chau, Kelly Chen, Jimin Kahng, and Hyojung Lim received SLS Fellowships for summer 2012. Each fellowship is $4,000. Congratulations Hiep, Kelly, Jimin, and Hyojung!
--May 7, 2012

Dominik Wolff has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship for 2012-2013. Dominik will use the $5,000 fellowship to conduct research on second language pedagogy at Michigan State. Congratulations Dominik!
--May 2, 2012

SLS faculty Susan Gass, Shawn Loewen and Charlene Polio are part of a MSU College of Arts and Letters delegation with Carol Wilson-Duffy and David Prestel that will travel to Kurdistan this month under a U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, IREX grant-funded program to assist faculty at the University of Duhok in curricular development and research support. Read more about their work here when they return!
--April 19, 2012

Soo Hyon Kim has been awarded a highly competitive Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2012-2013. Soo will use the $6,000 fellowship to complete her dissertation on how metacognitive knowledge in L2 writing affects L2 writing performance. Congratulations Soo!
--April 11, 2012

Sehoon Jung, Soo Hyon Kim, Mostafa Papi, and Jens Schmidtke received SLS Fellowships for summer 2012. Each fellowship is $4,000. Congratulations Sehoon, Soo, Mostafa, and Jens!
--April 10, 2012

Susan Gass and SLS Alum Luke Plonsky’s 2011 Language Learning article “Quantitative research methods, study quality, and outcomes: The case of interaction research” received the journal’s Outstanding Article Award for the best paper in 2011. Congratulations Susan and Luke!
--March 16, 2012

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