Justin Kanda, Author at Department of Second Language Studies

Bethany Schwartz accepts tenure-track position at CSU Monterey Bay

Ph.D. student Bethany Schwartz has accepted a tenure-track position at the California State University Monterey Bay as an Assistant Professor. Bethany will be joining their newly created Speech Language Pathology program in January 2023, teaching Masters students who plan to…

Dr. Betsy Gilliland appointed to two-year term on HIDOE Multilingualism Policy Advisory Committee

Dr. Betsy Gilliland, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, has been appointed to as a member of the HI Department of Education Multilingualism Advisory Committee for a two-year term. Dr. Gilliland has been selected for her expertise in second language acquisition…

SLS Alumna Dr. Hakyoon Lee appointed Director of Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research

SLS Alumna Dr. Hakyoon Lee (2014) has been appointed Director of The Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research at Georgia State University, one of sixteen federally-funded NFLRC centers. Congratulations! First appointed as a member of the Georgia State faculty…

SLS Alumna Dr. Anna Mendoza (2020) hired in tenure-track position at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Congratulations to SLS alumna Dr. Anna Mendoza (2020), who has been hired as a tenure-track research Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! Dr. Anna Mendoza graduated from the PhD in SLS in…

Ph.D. Candidate Hoa Le Hired at Harvard University

Ph.D. Candidate Hoa Le (currently ABD) has been hired at Harvard University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as Senior Preceptor of Vietnamese and Director of the Vietnamese Language Program. Her primary duties will be teaching in and building…

Congratulations SLS Graduates!Fall 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of the traditional Commencement Exercises, we’ve put this slideshow together to celebrate our SLS BA, MA, and Ph.D. graduates. Congratulations!! Dear Graduates, Obviously congratulations on having made it this far under…

COVID-19 & International Student Services Updates

The Second Language Studies Department (SLS) is working hard to ensure your needs are being met as best and safely as possible. You can find updates specific to the SLS Department and for the Mānoa campus below: SLS Orientation: The…

Congratulations, SLS Graduates!

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of the traditional Commencement Exercises, we’ve put this slideshow together to celebrate our SLS BA, MA, and Ph.D. graduates. Congratulations!! Messages from our graduates: Precious Arao (MA): I am so happy to…

Special Colloquium: Development and Validation of an L2 Korean Pronunciation Diagnostic

Special SLS Colloquium Wednesday, January 15th 12:30pm – 1:20pm BIOMED T211 Development and Validation of an L2 Korean Pronunciation Diagnostic Dr. Daniel R. Isbell PhD, Second Language Studies, Michigan State UniversityAssistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University Abstract: Pronunciation teaching is…

Fifth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition: Schedule

Friday, January 17th, 2020Center for Korean StudiesUniversity of Hawai′i at Mānoa Everyone is welcome to attend – no registration required. Refreshments will be provided. 13:30 – 14:40 Plenary Lecture: The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states by Prof.…

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