Category: News (page 2)

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…

  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 (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…

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…

SLS PhD student Alice Zhu has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for her dissertation project titled “Facilitation Effects of Structural Priming on Second Language Learning and Prediction of the Dative Alternation.” To learn more about her…

PhD alumna Dr. Mari Miyao is now an Associate Professor in the College of Social Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Congratulations to Mari and best of luck to her in her new position!

Congratulations to our Spring 2022 graduates! Please click on the right arrow to view all the pictures.

PhD alumna Dr. Haerim Hwang will be joining the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in August as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations to Haerim and best of luck to her in her new position!