On March 3th, ELI students and teachers gathered for the semi-annual ELI Social Hour with a lively spring theme. The event included small-group discussion activities, interactive language games in the game room, and a variety of tasty snacks.
Credit to Lazzat Anefiya for the wonderful photos!
This semester, students in ELI 80 presented their academic interests and exchanged ideas with peers on diverse academic topics. We’re proud of their hard work and curiosity—keep exploring your passions and sharing your ideas!
On March 4th, ELI students and teachers gathered for the semi-annual ELI Social Hour, embracing a vibrant spring theme. The event featured engaging discussion activities, interactive language games in our dynamic game room, and a delicious assortment of snacks!
Special thanks to Gabbie and Matthew for assisting with the event! Credit to Alexandra Lee for the photos!
ELI students and teachers attended the semi-annual ELI Social Hour on October 22nd, which featured an autumn theme. Everyone was engaged in discussion activities, played language-related games in our fancy game room, and enjoyed a variety of snacks!
Special thanks to Amie and Gabbie for hosting the event! Credit to Alexandra Lee for the photos!
ELI students and teachers attended the semi-annual ELI Coffee Hour on 3/6/2024, which featured Spring theme. This year, everyone participated in discussion activities, listened to music, and played competitively in our special game room!
Special thanks to Alexandra and Amie for hosting the event!
Jieun Kim (SLS Doctoral Student) and Maggie McGehee (SLS MA Student) won the award for Best Student Presentation at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers 2023 Conference.
Their presentation, “Streamlining a reading placement test: Insights from factor analysis and Rasch modeling”, drew on data from the ELI Placement Test and began in SLS 671 Research in Language Testing. Anu Reddy (Linguistics Doctoral Student) contributed to the research.
Congratulations, Jieun and Maggie!!
ELI students and teachers attended the semi-annual ELI Social Hour on 10/30/2023, which featured a spooky Halloween theme. Everyone was engaged in discussion activities and played language-related games!
Thank you to everyone for creating a fun and relaxing environment for the event!
ELI instructor, Sohyeon Lee, has been presenting a free workshop on the AI system, ChatGPT, in each of the ELI writing classes throughout October and November.
The workshop showed ELI students how they could ethically use ChatGPT to help improve various aspects of their papers in progress, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of using this tool.
Sohyeon is one of new ELI instructors during Fall 2023, who has been teaching ELI 73.
A big MAHALO to Sohyeon for putting together an insightful and timely workshop!
Congratulations to Krissa Guevarra who has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship! Krissa will be teaching in South Korea in 2024. We congratulate her on representing UH Manoa, the SLS department, and the ELI in this outstanding accomplishment!
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the nation’s largest study abroad fellowship program, facilitating cultural exchange through direct immersion in a host country and interaction with a local community. The English Teaching Assistant Programs place Fulbright grant recipients in classrooms around the world to assist local English teachers while serving as cultural ambassadors for the United States.
ELI instructor Laura Bacchus presented a free workshop on the online editing tool, Grammarly, in various ELI classes this April.
The workshop showed ELI students how they could use Grammarly to help edit their papers, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of using this tool.
This workshop helped students by walking them through the editing process of a paper with and without the use of Grammarly.
Laura, an ELI instructor who has been with use for years, most recently taught ESL 100 in the Fall of 2022.
Thank you Laura for the helpful and informative workshop!