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PhD Student Yu-Tzu Chang earns TOP Dissertation Grant

PhD student Yu-Tzu Chang has earned a Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers (TOP) Grant for her dissertation research valued at 30,000 USD! The mission of the TOP Grant program is to nurture research talent overseas in the humanities and social sciences, the NSTC…

PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker lands Post-Doctoral position at TU Braunschweig

PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker (2024) has been accepted for a three-year postdoc with Prof. Holger Hopp in the Department of English Linguistics at TU Braunschweig. He is excited for this new chapter is his career, which officially started on October…

Dr. Theres Grüter Plenary Speaker at 2025 ALAK International Conference

Dr. Theres Grüter was the plenary speaker at the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) International Conference held at Seoul National University on September 20, 2025. The conference was organized by Kitaek Kim (PhD 2014). Dr. Grüter’s talk was…

SLS is looking for a tenure-track professor!

The Department of Second Language Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professor, with specialization in second language corpus linguistics to begin Fall…

Remembering Rickey Larkin, Jr.

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of PhD Candidate Rickey Larkin, Jr. The text below, taken from his obituary in his native Ohio, also includes a guestbook if you would like to leave any memories for…

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…

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