News and Events Archives - Department of Second Language Studies

PhD Student Ayano Kawasaki Published in TESOL Quarterly

We are excited to share that Ayano Kawasaki, a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has published her article, “GELT vs. ELT: Competing Paradigms in L1-Flavored-English Translanguaging in an ESL…

Flyer with the pictures of Ayoung Chung and Jeonhee Kim congratulating the student for receiving Elizabeth Spann Award

SLS PhD Students Receive Elizabeth Spann Award for Research on L2 English Overpassivization

Congratulations to Ayoung Chung (PhD student, group leader) and Joonhee Kim (PhD student) for receiving the Elizabeth Spann Award in the amount of $2,000 from the College of Arts, Languages & Letters (CALL) Dean’s Office! Their research project, titled “Investigating…

PhD student Sera Chun Publishes in Language Teaching Research

Congratulations to the PhD student In Ji (Sera) Chun whose article entitled “Exploring teacher mediation and learner responsiveness in small-group online dynamic assessment for L2 academic writing development” is now published in Language Teaching Research (https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251368635)! Abstract: Research on groupdynamic assessment…

PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker lands Post-Doctoral position at TU Braunschweig

PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker (2024) has been accepted for a three-year postdoc with Prof. Holger Hopp in the Department of English Linguistics at TU Braunschweig. He is excited for this new chapter is his career, which officially started on October…

Dr. Theres Grüter Plenary Speaker at 2025 ALAK International Conference

Dr. Theres Grüter was the plenary speaker at the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) International Conference held at Seoul National University on September 20, 2025. The conference was organized by Kitaek Kim (PhD 2014). Dr. Grüter’s talk was…

SLSSA Fall 2025 Retreat

Fall 2025 Second Language Studies Student Association (SLSSA) Retreat ☀️ Mahalo to SLSSA (@uhmslssa) for organizing such a wonderful retreat at Ala Moana Beach Park! The day began with a beach social featuring Human Bingo, the Earn a PhD in…

Picture of new SLS students for Fall 2025. Caption at the top is "Welcome"

Welcome to SLS! Fall 2025

On August 22, 2025 we welcomed new and returning students at the SLS Department Orientation and SLSSA (@uhmslssa) Fall 2025 Welcome Cooler . It was the perfect chance to connect, recharge, and kick off the semester strong. We also hosted…

Photo of Professor Theres Gruter and joined in the photo are our SLS 'Ohana: Tomomi Nishikawa (PhD 2007); Mari Miyao, (PhD 2017); Ken Urano (MA 2000); and Juri Furukawa (incoming MA)!

SLS Professor Dr. Theres Grüter invited to speak at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference!

SLS Professor, Dr. Theres Grüter was the invited speaker at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference! In her talk titled “Why being surprised is a good thing: Prediction error as a form of negative evidence in language…

PhD Student Yoonseo Kim publishes in TESOL Quarterly

Congratulations to PhD student Yoonseo Kim, who published in TESOL Quarterly! Her article, “Automated Essay Scoring With GPT-4 for a Local Placement Test: Investigating Prompting Strategies, Intra-Rater Reliability, and Alignment With Human Scores,” originated from her qualifying paper. The study…

Five SLS Professors among Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide

Five professors from the Department of Second Language Studies are among the top 2% of scientists in the world, according to Stanford University’s latest World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields. First…

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