Title: Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: a conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020) Authors: Theres Grüter, Jieun Kim, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Jue Wang, Raed Alzahrani, Yu-Tzu Chang, Hoan Nguyen, Michaela Nuesser, Akari Ohba, Sachiko Roos,…
Ph.D. student Daniel Holden Receive CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship
December of 2022, PhD candidate Daniel Holden received the CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship. His dissertation research seeks to identify second language program administrators with a critical or social justice orientation in language schools on O’ahu, and asks them to describe…
Student Publications: January 2023
Title: Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle Abstract: This article reports on the first study to investigate Saudis’ attitudes toward Saudi English (SauE). To situate Saudi speakers’ attitudes within the sociolinguistic ecology of language use, this study invited 80…
Ph.D. Students Ann Tai Choe and Hitoshi Nishizawa Receive AAAL Graduate Student Awards
Ph.D. students Ann Tai Choe and Hitoshi Nishizawa have both received AAAL Graduate Student Awards for their presentation proposals. Both students will be practicing their talks on March 9th at the Brown Bag Thursday Lecture Series. Current SLS students, faculty,…
Bethany Schwartz accepts tenure-track position at CSU Monterey Bay
Ph.D. student Bethany Schwartz has accepted a tenure-track position at the California State University Monterey Bay as an Assistant Professor. Bethany will be joining their newly created Speech Language Pathology program in January 2023, teaching Masters students who plan to…
Dr. Betsy Gilliland appointed to two-year term on HIDOE Multilingualism Policy Advisory Committee
Dr. Betsy Gilliland, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, has been appointed to as a member of the HI Department of Education Multilingualism Advisory Committee for a two-year term. Dr. Gilliland has been selected for her expertise in second language acquisition…
Volunteer tutors at Wai‘alae Elementary Public Charter School
SLS undergraduate and graduate students tutor K-5 Multilingual Language Learners (MLLs) at a local elementary school. Fall 2022 tutors (with Dr. Gilliland and Dr. Grüter; not pictured: Gisella Kahapea and Khyla Rabang)
BAMA Pathway Graduate Lena Petko featured in UH News
University of Hawaiʻi Second Language Studies alumna Lena Petko, found her path to a master’s degree, a new career, and an unexpected ʻohana through an accelerated Combined Bachelor’s & Master’s Degree Pathway (BAMA Pathway) program. BAMA Pathway programs encourage high-performing…
SLS Alumna Dr. Hakyoon Lee appointed Director of Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research
SLS Alumna Dr. Hakyoon Lee (2014) has been appointed Director of The Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research at Georgia State University, one of sixteen federally-funded NFLRC centers. Congratulations! First appointed as a member of the Georgia State faculty…
SLS Alumna Dr. Anna Mendoza (2020) hired in tenure-track position at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Congratulations to SLS alumna Dr. Anna Mendoza (2020), who has been hired as a tenure-track research Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! Dr. Anna Mendoza graduated from the PhD in SLS in…