Justin Kanda, Author at Department of Second Language Studies

Five SLS Professors among Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide

Five professors from the Department of Second Language Studies are among the top 2% of scientists in the world, according to Stanford University’s latest World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields. First…

Campus Huaka‘i co-founded by Dr. Christina Higgins featured in UH News

The Campus Huaka‘i, a campus tour focused on the Hawaiian history and ʻili ʻāina (land divisions), was featured in UH News in its May 6th issue. Along with some key areas of the campus, Dr. Christina Higgins, one of the…

Dr. Betsy Gilliland wins CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Betsy Gilliland has been awarded the CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching! She was recognized in the Spring 2025 issue of CALL Lately. Congratulations, Dr. Gilliland!

SLS Gets Students Ready for Faculty-Sponsored Study Tours

The SLS Summer Abroad Pre-Departure Meeting brought together students preparing to go abroad during the Summer of 2025. Participants connected with fellow travelers, heard valuable advice from past students who went to the Deep Dive Program through CCS-Peking University, and…

Congratulations Asia Gillette, Faith C. Ai Scholarship Awardee

MA student Asia Gillette is one of the recipients of the 2025 Faith C. Ai Scholarship, a $5,000 award for students who intend to teach after graduation and are in or from the state of Hawai‘i. Congratulations, Asia!

PhD Graduate Alice (Yanxin) Zhu publishes two articles

PhD Graduate Dr. Alice (Yanxin) Zhu (2024) recently published two articles in two separate journals: “Native speakers and learners of Mandarin predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb constraints” in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition “Structural…

MA Graduate Hoan Nguyen publishes in Linguistic Approaches to BIlingualism

MA Graduate Hoan Nguyen (2024) published her co-authored paper “Facilitative use of classifiers in heritage Vietnamese” with MA advisor Dr. Theres Grüter in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. The article was based on her Scholarly Paper, and is available in full.…

TIRF 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grants Awarded to Two SLS Students

The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) has announced its 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grants awardees, which include two SLS students: Name & Bio: Jieun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i…

PhD student Sera Chun publishes in Journal of Pragmatics

PhD student Inji “Sera” Chun has recently published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 232 (October 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.002), with an article titled “Teacher mobility during small-group instructional rounds for young EFL learners: An embodied resource to promote students’ task engagement.”…

SLS Faculty in the press: Theres Grüter, Dan Isbell

Our SLS Faculty have recently been in the general press, talking about second (or more) languages and language learning! Dr. Theres Grüter was featured in Island Scene talking about ‘the power of language.’ The digital version was available in December…

Author: Justin Kanda