Organizations

The following section provides relevant information relative to the development of Ph.D. students. It provides links to organizations where Ph.D. students can present their research.

Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association (AFLTA)

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)

American Association of Teachers of Arabic

American Association of Teachers of French

American Association of Teachers of German

American Association of Teachers of Italian

American Association of Teachers of Japanese

American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc. (AATSP)

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA)

Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG)

Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM)

Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC)

Louisiana Foreign Language Teaching Association (LFLTA)

Mississippi Foreign Language Association (MFLA)

Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (TFLTA)

The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)

The TESOL Convention

Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (TFLTA)

South Central Modern Language Association

Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)

Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)

University of Alabama Language Conference

Created by Shanshan Duan (sduan@go.olemiss.edu) and Maiyojanna Pelayo (mspelayo@go.olemiss.edu).

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments regarding the above list.

(This information was last updated on December 8, 2020.)

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Emad is a highly energetic and enthusiastic teacher. He has taught Arabic as a foreign language in several places including the Middle Eastern Studies Center in Kansas City, The TAFL Center at Alexandria University in Egypt, The University of Texas at Austin, and the AALIM Institute in Morocco. He has demonstrated an ability to teach, motivate and direct students at a variety of academic levels and consistently maintains excellent relations with students, faculty and administrators.

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Mai is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies. While living in Venezuela, her native land, Maiyojanna studied Administration. After graduation, she embarked on an adventure of learning English at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). During this abroad experience, Maiyojanna tutored students learning Spanish. Through this practice, in combination with her own language learning experience, her love for teaching languages flourished, driving her to obtain a B.A. in 2002 and an M.A. in 2005 in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.