The Campus Huaka‘i, a campus tour focused on the Hawaiian history and ʻili ʻāina (land divisions), was featured in UH News in its May 6th issue. Along with some key areas of the campus, Dr. Christina Higgins, one of the…
Dr. Betsy Gilliland wins CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Betsy Gilliland has been awarded the CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching! She was recognized in the Spring 2025 issue of CALL Lately. Congratulations, Dr. Gilliland!
SLS Gets Students Ready for Faculty-Sponsored Study Tours
The SLS Summer Abroad Pre-Departure Meeting brought together students preparing to go abroad during the Summer of 2025. Participants connected with fellow travelers, heard valuable advice from past students who went to the Deep Dive Program through CCS-Peking University, and…
Sera Chun wins Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award
PhD Student Sera Chun has won the 2025 Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award for her work on her dissertation titled “Second language teachers’ cognition and practices for pronunciation-focused instruction.” The Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award provides support to dissertation-level doctoral…
Congratulations Asia Gillette, Faith C. Ai Scholarship Awardee
MA student Asia Gillette is one of the recipients of the 2025 Faith C. Ai Scholarship, a $5,000 award for students who intend to teach after graduation and are in or from the state of Hawai‘i. Congratulations, Asia!
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…
PhD student Sera Chun publishes in Journal of Pragmatics
PhD student Inji “Sera” Chun has recently published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 232 (October 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.002), with an article titled “Teacher mobility during small-group instructional rounds for young EFL learners: An embodied resource to promote students’ task engagement.”…
SLS Faculty in the press: Theres Grüter, Dan Isbell
Our SLS Faculty have recently been in the general press, talking about second (or more) languages and language learning! Dr. Theres Grüter was featured in Island Scene talking about ‘the power of language.’ The digital version was available in December…
Welcome to SLS! Fall 2024
The Department of Second Language Studies held its annual Department Orientation on Friday, August 23rd, which was followed by a Welcome Cooler hosted by the SLS Student Association. Faculty, staff, and students were able to meet each other informally over…
SLS 130 hosts Pidgin outreach event
Students in SLS 130, led by instructor Anne McCarrey and assisted by the Sato Center (Dr. Christina Higgins, Kent Sakoda, Gisella Kahapea), hosted “Bumbai You Learn,” a Pidgin outreach event on April 23, 2024 at Campus Center. The event featured…