Congratulations to our PhD student, Mery Diez Ortega, for receiving the AAAL 2021 Graduate Student Award and the CALICO 2021 Robert A. Fischer Outstanding Graduate Student Award this year!
New publication in Language Assessment Quarterlyby SLS Faculty Dr. Daniel R. Isbell
SLS Faculty Dr. Daniel R. Isbell published an article in Language Assessment Quarterly. The article is titled “Can the Test Support Student Learning? Validating the Use of a Second Language Pronunciation Diagnostic. (시험은 학습자의 학습을 도와 줄 수 있는가? 제2언어…
PhD in SLS Dissertation Defense on Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 am HSTWenyi Ling
Wenyi Ling will be defending her dissertation on Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 am HST over Zoom. Zoom meeting link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96049001788 (no registration required) Title: The perception, processing, and learning of Mandarin lexical tone by second language speakers Abstract: This…
AAAL 2021 SLS Presentations
Ann Choe, PhD student Representing the Temporality of Collaborative Embodied Action in Multimodal Transcripts A linguistic analysis of the communication demands in typical technology-mediated learning environments (with Kristopher Kyle & Masaki Eguchi) Dr. Dustin Crowther & Dr. Daniel Isbell Who…
New chapter in the Routledge Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspectiveby Dr. Gabriele Kasper and PhD alumna Elham Monfaredi
Dr. Gabriele Kasper’s and PhD alumna Elham Monfaredi’s chapter in the Routledge Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective will be available soon. The chapter is titled “Storytelling as Instructional Practice in Persian Language Classrooms.” Check it out here!
Online SLS courses offered this summer
We are offering Summer 2021 courses online. The list of online summer courses and descriptions are available here: https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/summer-2021/. Please also see flyer below for online courses offered as part of the Multilingual Multicultural Summer Institute. UH students can register…
New publication in Assessing Writingby PhD Student Fred Zenker and SLS Affiliate Faculty Dr. Kristopher Kyle
PhD Student Fred Zenker and SLS Affiliate Faculty Dr. Kristopher Kyle published an article in Assessing Writing. The article is titled “Investigating minimum text lengths for lexical diversity indices.” Check it out here!
New Book: Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition TeacherCo-edited by Dr. Meryl Siegal and Dr. Betsy Gilliland
Associate Professor Betsy Gilliland and former SLS visiting colleague Meryl Siegal co-edited the book “Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher”, which was just released by University of Michigan Press. The book includes practical teaching suggestions and research on first-year…
SLS Faculty Earn Top Spots in Their Fields in New Ranking of Scientific ImpactDr. Graham Crookes and Dr. Gabriele Kasper featured in World’s Top 2% Scholars List
A recent study features 2 current SLS faculty, Dr. Graham Crookes and Dr. Gabriele Kasper, among the world’s top 2% of scholars. The study was conducted by a group of experts led by Professor John P.A. Ioannides at Stanford University,…
Fall 2020 Graduation Cooler
Welcome back to the first day of the Spring 2021 semester! Just wanted to share this picture from our graduation cooler in December where faculty, students, staff, and alumni gathered over Zoom to celebrate the graduates of Fall 2020. Wishing…