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…
Dustin Crowther and Daniel Isbell receives grant from APTIS
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…
Fo Reel! Da Pidgin Film Festival
FO REEL! Da Pidgin Film Festival will showcase new and classic films featuring Pidgin by UH-system students and alumni. This first-time event is a collaboration between the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies, and the School for…
Dr. Grüter and 10 SLS graduate students publish paper in SSLA based on Fall 2021 seminar project
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,…
Ph.D. student Daniel Holden Receive CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship
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…
Student Publications: January 2023
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…
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…
BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in UH News
University of Hawaiʻi Second Language Studies alumna Lena Petko, found her path to a master’s degree, a new career, and an unexpected ʻohana through an accelerated Combined Bachelor’s & Master’s Degree Pathway (BAMA Pathway) program. BAMA Pathway programs encourage high-performing…
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…