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Megan “Maggie” McGehee is a current MA student in the SLS Department. This past week, she has been awarded the University of Hawai’i Presidential Award for Outstanding Service. The Presidential Award for Outstanding Services honors a UH Manoa staff member…

Journal: Language Testing Authors: Daniel Isbell, Dustin Crowther, Hitoshi Nishizawa Article: Speaking performances, stakeholder perceptions, and test scores: Extrapolating from the Duolingo English test to the university Abstract: The extrapolation of test scores to a target domain—that is, association between…

PhD students Sera Chun and Michaela Nuesser are both scholarship recipients of the Faith C. Ai Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to MA and PhD graduate students majoring in any subject (as long as they intend to teach), and…

Congratulations to SLS faculty Dustin Crowther and Daniel Isbell, who have received a $20,925 US grant from the British Council to investigating the strength of association between speech intelligibility and comprehensibility across APTIS speaking tasks. This grant will additionally allow…

Title: Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: a conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020) Authors: Theres Grüter, Jieun Kim, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Jue Wang, Raed Alzahrani, Yu-Tzu Chang, Hoan Nguyen, Michaela Nuesser, Akari Ohba, Sachiko Roos,…

December of 2022, PhD candidate Daniel Holden received the CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship. His dissertation research seeks to identify second language program administrators with a critical or social justice orientation in language schools on O’ahu, and asks them to describe…

Title: Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle Abstract: This article reports on the first study to investigate Saudis’ attitudes toward Saudi English (SauE). To situate Saudi speakers’ attitudes within the sociolinguistic ecology of language use, this study invited 80…

PhD candidate Wenyi Ling and Dr. Theres Grüter’s Online First publication in Second Language Research is available now. The article is entitled “From sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin”. Check it…

The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) celebrates and honors exemplary teaching by currently enrolled graduate students. The Hannah Liebreich Merit Based Award in Teaching is important because it honors outstanding graduate students, reminds the campus that teaching is a central part…