Center for Second Language Research

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Dr. Luca Onnis is the Director of Center for Second Language Research and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the Universify of Hawaii at Manoa. His research interests are statistical learning of sequence structure; computer simulations of language acquisition, and language impairment; corpus-based analyses; event-related brain potential correlates of natural and artificial language learning; monolingual and bilingual sentence processing; and language evolution.

Yukiko Watanabe is a doctoral candidate in the Second Language Studies Program in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her main research interests range from impact and use of program evaluation, capacity building in educational organizations, to individual differences in second language acquisition. She currently manages the CSLR website and the grant database, and assists grant writing for the SLS psycholinguistics lab.

Virginie Fasel Lauzon, visiting scholar
Gavin Furukawa, GA for the Charlene Sato Center
Sung Soon Jang, visiting scholar
Kent Sakoda, Director, Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies
Priti Sandhu, GA for Christina Higgins
Susannah Welch, GA for Kathy Davis

Lawrence Davis, GA for ELI (instructor)
Angeles Quero Gervilla, visiting scholar
Sung Soon Jang, visiting scholar
Matt Prior, GA for SLS (SLS 302 instructor)