Department of Second Language Studies | University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tenure-track Faculty Positions

Department of Second Language Studies will have three tenure-track faculty positions for Fall 2012.

Recruiting Fall 2012 Ph.D. Students

DSLS invites applications to its PhD program from strong candidates with research interests in any area of second language learning. A limited number of graduate assistantships are available to support the best qualified candidates for up to four years.

aboutSecond Language Studies

Probably the oldest independent department in its field and was originally called the Department of English as a Second Language (ESL)…

aboutSLSSA

Second Language Studies Student Association (SLSSA) is a student organization within the department of SLS at UHM. Its main purpose is to promote professional and social interaction between its members and the SLS faculty…

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Reading in a Foreign Language

A referred international online journal of issues in foreign language reading and literacy, sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center, the College of Language, Linguistics and Literature at UH, and the Department of Second Language Studies at UH…

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DSLS “Brown Bag” Thursday lunchtime talk series, St. John 11; 12:00-1:20

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February 23

Decoding Socio-pragmatic Utterances in Intercultural Contexts – A Think-aloud Study

Veronika Timpe

Byram’s (1997) Model of Intercultural Communicative Competence includes three language competences – linguistic, sociolinguistic, and discourse competence – which he regards as essential in intercultural communicative encounters. Sociolinguistics has proven to be a challenging field in language assessment [...]

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