News & Events - Department of Second Language Studies

PhD Student Fred Zenker: Paper in Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Ph.D. Student Fred Zenker and colleagues who were formerly at UHM recently wrote a paper that was released in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Title: Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task…

Dustin Crowther, Dan Isbell and Hitoshi Nishizawa: Newly Published Article in Applied Psycholinguistics on Cambridge Core

Dustin Crowther, Daniel Isbell, and Ph.D. student Hitoshi Nishizawa was recently featured for their newly published article in Applied Psycholinguistics on Cambridge Core, published by Cambridge University Press. Title: Second language speech comprehensibility and acceptability in academic settings: Listener perceptions…

B.A. student Shannon Pederson receives Boren Scholarship

Congratulations to Shannon Pederson, an SLS student in our BA program, who was recently awarded a prestigious national Boren Scholarship! The Boren Scholarship will support Shannon during her 2023-2024 Korean Flagship Capstone Program at Korea University in Seoul. As a…

Welcome, New SLS Students!

New incoming students in the Department of Second Language Studies have been participating in various orientations and information sessions, including a general department orientation on Thursday, August 17th, and program-level orientations for our undergraduates, MA students, and PhD students throughout…

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim wins 2023 MwALT Best Student Paper Award

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim won the 2023 MwALT Best Student Paper Award! The paper is titled “Test takers’ interaction with context videos in a video-based listening test: A conceptual replication and extension of Suvorov (2015)” Abstract The present study conceptually…

Student Publications: August 2023

Title: Embodied remembering in coordinated performances Abstract: Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis and past literature on synchronization, this study sheds light on the temporal properties of embodied remembering, which we define as co-operative enactment(s) of a mutually-established recollectable. Our…

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim Starts ACTFL Summer Internship

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim starts a Summer internship with ACTFL; the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Interns work with ACTFL staff members on special projects in various ACTFL departments, and enhance their resume while they learn valuable…

Ph.D. Student Mayuko Yusa Receives Center For Japanese Studies Fellowship

Ph.D. student Mayuko Yusa has received the Takie Sugiyama Lebra scholarship, a graduate fellowship from the Center for Japanese Studies, for Fall 2023 to Spring 2024. The Takie Sugiyama Lebra scholarship is for full-time graduate students enrolled in Japanese Studies…

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang Receives Two Scholarships

Ph.D. student Yu-Tzu Chang, recently received two scholarships; The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Chung-Fong and Grace Ning Fund for Chinese Studies. The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Graduate Fellowship Fund…

M.A. Student Megan McGehee Receives Presidential Award for Outstanding Service

Megan “Maggie” McGehee is a current MA student in the SLS Department. This past week, she has been awarded the University of Hawai’i Presidential Award for Outstanding Service. The Presidential Award for Outstanding Services honors a UH Manoa staff member…