Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Department of Applied Linquistics

Latest News

Gil Watz Memorial Lecture:

Professor Merrill Swain (OISE, University of Toronto)

Monday, April 8, 2013

2:30-4:00 p.m.

Foster Auditorium (Paterno Library)

CLA Invited Lecture:

Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan)

Friday, April 19, 2013

2:30-4:00 p.m.

104 Keller Building

Spring 2013 APLNG Open House

Friday, April 26th
12:30-2:30
7 Sparks Building
MA TESL & PhD Students Poster/Portfolio Presentations
CALPER Publications and Resource Booth 

APLNG PhD - Roadmap to Success
CALPER Grant

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research is very pleased to announce that our application for a new Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education was successful. CALPER will continue its work as a Language Resource Center. With the current grant, CALPER now enters its third funding cycle.

New Online Graduate Certificate in TESOL

Starting in the Spring 2011 semester, the Department of Applied Linguistics is offering its new Online Graduate Certificate Program in TESOL for candidates seeking entry-level English language teaching credentials. The program offers a flexible four-course schedule (12 credits), an interactive online setting, access to Penn State’s vast academic resources, as well as the opportunity to transfer earned credits to the MA TESL program. For admissions information, contact the TESOL program. Find out more information and apply today!

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Welcome to the Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State University

 

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The Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State's University Park campus is part of the College of the Liberal Arts. In teaching, research and service, our mission is to advance understandings of language use and language learning from a range of anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives.

Our outstanding faculty are committed to teaching and mentoring students. They are recognized world wide for their topically and geographically diverse research involving a broad spectrum of languages and settings. Areas of specialization include classroom discourse and learning; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; language and cognition; language, health, and aging; second and foreign language and literacy teaching and learning; sociocultural theory; technology and language learning; teacher education and world Englishes.