SLS Faculty and Students in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference) Trip

Dr. Isbell, Yoonseo Kim, Ces Ann Jocson, Maggie McGehee, and Nicholas Coney had a very successful conference trip in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference). The following is a list of presentations that they were involved in: Evaluating the Use of…

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Award

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang receives the NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for her dissertation project titled “Aspect and Event Cognition in the Acquisition and Processing of a Second Language”. This award reflects NSF’s statutory mission…

SLS PHD Alumna Bethany Schwartz Publishes Pidgin Article

SLS PhD alumna Dr. Bethany Schwartz recently published an article related to Pidgin titled, “We Pau?”: Culturally Responsive Language Assessment of Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole)–Speaking Children. The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce speech-language pathologists to the salient characteristic of the…

Lee Tonouchi: AAAL Distinguished Public Service Scholar Award

Lee “Da Pidgin Guerilla” Tonouchi, author and Pidgin activist, recently received the 2023 AAAL Distinguished Public Service Scholar Award, nominated by Dr. Christina Higgins. Recipients of the award are non-AAAL members who raise public awareness of important social issues involving…

SLS Faculty Dr. Betsy Gilliland: Plenary Talk at Hawai’i TESOL Conference

Dr. Betsy Gilliland gave the plenary talk “Innovating Pedagogy and Practice Through Action Research” at Hawai’i TESOL Conference this past Saturday at BYU-Hawai’i. The conference was well-attended by SLS faculty, students, and alumni, both as attendees and presenters. Great job…

SLS Faculty Dan Isbell: Associate Editor for Language Learning

Ho’omaikai’i to SLS Faculty Dan Isbell who became an associate editor for Language Learning! Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines…

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim: New Publication

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim recently published “Memorizing and fabricating? Uncovering high-stakes writing test preparation” in refereed journal Language Education and Assessment. Abstract: With high-stakes decisions relying on standardized language tests (Chapelle, 2021a), many test-takers seek test preparation from commercial “cram…