The Department of Second Language Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professor, with specialization in second language corpus linguistics to begin Fall…
Remembering Rickey Larkin, Jr.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of PhD Candidate Rickey Larkin, Jr. The text below, taken from his obituary in his native Ohio, also includes a guestbook if you would like to leave any memories for…
Angel Sanchez featured in the UH News for her UROP Study!
Congratulations to our SLS Teaching Minor student Angel Sanchez for her accomplishment of her Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) study in Venice, Italy in summer 2024 and being featured on UH News! Her project was about comparing European and international…
New Resource Website for Global Englishes-focused Teaching Materials
A new website for Global Englishes-focused teaching materials is now available! https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/ge-focused-teaching-materials/ This website was designed by Kenton “Kenny” Harsch, retired English Language Institute Director and Undergraduate Coordinator and Advisor, and Michelle Kunkel, PhD candidate. The website includes an explanation…
CASE teaches debate skills at Waipahu High School
On Friday, February 7th, the graduate assistants of the Center for Academic Spoken English (CASE) delivered a workshop on small group debate skills to Grade 10 and 11 English Language Learners at Waipahu High School. The workshop aimed to promote…
Jieun Kim wins Duolingo English Test Dissertation Award
Jieun Kim, PhD candidate, is one of eight recipients of the 2024 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award. Through our annual Doctoral Dissertation Awards, the Duolingo English Test (DET) proudly recognizes and celebrates outstanding doctoral research in the field of…
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.…
Elizabeth Spann Award awarded to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim
The College of Arts, Languages and Letters have awarded an Elizabeth Spann Award to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim, for their research proposal on Korean vocabulary lists based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Jieun and…
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…