We are happy to share that Kristen Urada, a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was featured in an article, “Fluent in Purpose: When a fellowship lets passion lead,” published…
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…
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 Student Yu-Tzu Chang earns TOP Dissertation Grant
PhD student Yu-Tzu Chang has earned a Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers (TOP) Grant for her dissertation research valued at 30,000 USD! The mission of the TOP Grant program is to nurture research talent overseas in the humanities and social sciences, the NSTC…
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…
SLS is looking for a tenure-track professor!
The Department of Second Language Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professor, with specialization in second language corpus linguistics to begin Fall…
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…
Remembering Rickey Larkin, Jr.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of PhD Candidate Rickey Larkin, Jr. The text below, taken from his obituary in his native Ohio, also includes a guestbook if you would like to leave any memories for…