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PhD Student Yoonseo Kim publishes in TESOL Quarterly

Congratulations to PhD student Yoonseo Kim, who published in TESOL Quarterly! Her article, “Automated Essay Scoring With GPT-4 for a Local Placement Test: Investigating Prompting Strategies, Intra-Rater Reliability, and Alignment With Human Scores,” originated from her qualifying paper. The study…

Sera Chun wins Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award

PhD Student Sera Chun has won the 2025 Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award for her work on her dissertation titled “Second language teachers’ cognition and practices for pronunciation-focused instruction.” The Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award provides support to dissertation-level doctoral…

New Resource Website for Global Englishes-focused Teaching Materials

A new website for Global Englishes-focused teaching materials is now available! https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/ge-focused-teaching-materials/ This website was designed by Kenton “Kenny” Harsch, retired English Language Institute Director and Undergraduate Coordinator and Advisor, and Michelle Kunkel, PhD candidate. The website includes an explanation…

CASE teaches debate skills at Waipahu High School

On Friday, February 7th, the graduate assistants of the Center for Academic Spoken English (CASE) delivered a workshop on small group debate skills to Grade 10 and 11 English Language Learners at Waipahu High School. The workshop aimed to promote…

Jieun Kim wins Duolingo English Test Dissertation Award

Jieun Kim, PhD candidate, is one of eight recipients of the 2024 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award. Through our annual Doctoral Dissertation Awards, the Duolingo English Test (DET) proudly recognizes and celebrates outstanding doctoral research in the field of…

Elizabeth Spann Award awarded to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim

The College of Arts, Languages and Letters have awarded an Elizabeth Spann Award to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim, for their research proposal on Korean vocabulary lists based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Jieun and…

SLS BA Student Christopher Ramirez Dances with UHM Ballroom Dance Club to National Championship

SLS BA student Christopher Ramirez is a member of a 10-student Ballroom Dance Club at UH. They waltzed, foxtrotted, and chacha’d their way into a national title in March of this year. The club won first place for the “highest…

SLS 312 Class Has Book Sharing Day with Wai’alae Elementary School

The students of SLS 312 went to Wai’alae Elementary School on April 15, 2024 (World Book Day) and worked with the first graders in the Wai’alae after school program to create an alphabet book. The book was later printed for…

SLS 130 hosts Pidgin outreach event

Students in SLS 130, led by instructor Anne McCarrey and assisted by the Sato Center (Dr. Christina Higgins, Kent Sakoda, Gisella Kahapea), hosted “Bumbai You Learn,” a Pidgin outreach event on April 23, 2024 at Campus Center. The event featured…

SLS returns to Washington Middle School

In mid-April, SLS undergraduate advisor and coordinator Patrick Agullana was welcomed back to the After School All-Star program at Washington Middle School. As this was the second visit to Washington Middle, everyone was eager to hear again from the SLS…

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