SLS BA student Christopher Ramirez is a member of a 10-student Ballroom Dance Club at UH. They waltzed, foxtrotted, and chacha’d their way into a national title in March of this year. The club won first place for the “highest…
SLS 312 Class Has Book Sharing Day with Wai’alae Elementary School
The students of SLS 312 went to Wai’alae Elementary School on April 15, 2024 (World Book Day) and worked with the first graders in the Wai’alae after school program to create an alphabet book. The book was later printed for…
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…
SLS returns to Washington Middle School
In mid-April, SLS undergraduate advisor and coordinator Patrick Agullana was welcomed back to the After School All-Star program at Washington Middle School. As this was the second visit to Washington Middle, everyone was eager to hear again from the SLS…
SLS Faculty and Students in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference) Trip
Dr. Isbell, Yoonseo Kim, Ces Ann Jocson, Maggie McGehee, and Nicholas Coney had a very successful conference trip in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference). The following is a list of presentations that they were involved in: Evaluating the Use of…
Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang receives the NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for her dissertation project titled “Aspect and Event Cognition in the Acquisition and Processing of a Second Language”. This award reflects NSF’s statutory mission…
Ph.D. Student Mayuko Yusa Hired at Hirosaki Gakuin University
Ph.D. Student Mayuko Yusa was recently hired at Hirosaki Gakuin University as a Junior Associate Professor. Congratulations and good luck, Mayuko!
SLS PHD Alumna Bethany Schwartz Publishes Pidgin Article
SLS PhD alumna Dr. Bethany Schwartz recently published an article related to Pidgin titled, “We Pau?”: Culturally Responsive Language Assessment of Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole)–Speaking Children. The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce speech-language pathologists to the salient characteristic of the…
Lee Tonouchi: AAAL Distinguished Public Service Scholar Award
Lee “Da Pidgin Guerilla” Tonouchi, author and Pidgin activist, recently received the 2023 AAAL Distinguished Public Service Scholar Award, nominated by Dr. Christina Higgins. Recipients of the award are non-AAAL members who raise public awareness of important social issues involving…
SLS Faculty Dr. Betsy Gilliland: Plenary Talk at Hawai’i TESOL Conference
Dr. Betsy Gilliland gave the plenary talk “Innovating Pedagogy and Practice Through Action Research” at Hawai’i TESOL Conference this past Saturday at BYU-Hawai’i. The conference was well-attended by SLS faculty, students, and alumni, both as attendees and presenters. Great job…