Dr.

Peter De Costa,
Ina Choi, Katie Cook, Dustin Crowther, Jessica Fox, Susie
Kim, Jie Liu, and Jeffrey Maloney
DATE: Tuesday Dec. 2nd
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Erickson Room: 133F

SLA Practice: Qualitative Insights from the Field
The session is comprised of three parts. It begins with a 20-minute overview of
socioculturally-oriented theories in second language acquisition (SLA) and an introduction to
qualitative methodologies used in conducting SLA research by Dr. De Costa. Next, members
of the panel, which is comprised of doctoral students from the College of Education and the
College of Arts and Letters, will present five-minute descriptions of their research projects
involving a range of second language learners. The remaining time will be set aside for a
dialogue with audience.


Peter De Costa is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic,
Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University. He is part of the core faculty
within the Second Language Studies Ph.D. program and the Master of Arts in TESOL
Program. Peters primary area of research is the role of identity and ideology in second
language acquisition (SLA), though he researches other issues in applied linguistics,
including English as a lingua franca, critical classroom discourse analysis, and culturally
relevant pedagogy for immigrant ESL learners. Much of his current work focuses on
conducting ethical applied linguistic research, scalar approaches to language learning,
language learning and emotions, linguistic landscapes in multilingual settings, and corpus-
based understandings of EAP genre-related challenges encountered by international students
studying in US universities.
2014-2015 Literacy Colloquy Presentation