Category: News (page 10)

Dr. Gabriele Kasper’s and PhD alumna Elham Monfaredi’s chapter in the Routledge Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective will be available soon. The chapter is titled “Storytelling as Instructional Practice in Persian Language Classrooms.” Check it out here!

We are offering Summer 2021 courses online. The list of online summer courses and descriptions are available here: https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/summer-2021/. Please also see flyer below for online courses offered as part of the Multilingual Multicultural Summer Institute.     UH students can register…

PhD Student Fred Zenker and SLS Affiliate Faculty Dr. Kristopher Kyle published an article in Assessing Writing. The article is titled “Investigating minimum text lengths for lexical diversity indices.” Check it out here!

Associate Professor Betsy Gilliland and former SLS visiting colleague Meryl Siegal co-edited the book “Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher”, which was just released by University of Michigan Press. The book includes practical teaching suggestions and research on first-year…

A recent study features 2 current SLS faculty, Dr. Graham Crookes and Dr. Gabriele Kasper, among the world’s top 2% of scholars. The study was conducted by a group of experts led by Professor John P.A. Ioannides at Stanford University,…

Dr. James Dean Brown and Dr. Theres Grüter published an article in the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL). The article is titled “The same cloze for all occasions? Using the Brown (1980) cloze test for measuring…

Dr. Dustin Crowther’s and Dr. Dan Isbell’s chapters in the Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing are available now. Dr. Crowther’s chapter is titled “Measuring Phonology”, and Dr. Isbell’s chapter (co-authored with Dr. John Rogers) is titled…

The SLSSA Fall 2020 Newsletter is available now. Please click here to view the full newsletter. A special thank you to the editors, PhD student Micah Mizukami and MA student Victoria Lee.