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University of Iowa

Focus / Concentrations:                 Applied, Second Language Acquisition

Department / College:                   Foreign Language Acquistion Research & Education

The University of Iowa names its program that offers a PhD in SLA is the “Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education,” or FLARE. Students can take courses from linguistics, communications, psychology, education, and psychology departments. In a word, it’s “interdisciplinary.”