The study of SLA draws from other academic disciplines, among them linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, sociology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and education.
Admission is for the fall semester and students are admitted on a full-time basis only.
Students may pursue their interdisciplinary interests in courses offered by the departments of Asian Languages, Curriculum and Instruction, French and Italian, German, Linguistics, Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, Rhetoric, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech Pathology and Audiology. There are more than 20 associated faculty members in these and other departments with whom students may study. The University Library contains more than two million volumes and holdings in areas related to SLA are excellent, affording a wide range of opportunities for research. International Programs University of Iowa 1998.