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…
Welcome to SLS! Fall 2025
On August 22, 2025 we welcomed new and returning students at the SLS Department Orientation and SLSSA (@uhmslssa) Fall 2025 Welcome Cooler . It was the perfect chance to connect, recharge, and kick off the semester strong. We also hosted…
SLS Professor Dr. Theres Grüter invited to speak at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference!
SLS Professor, Dr. Theres Grüter was the invited speaker at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference! In her talk titled “Why being surprised is a good thing: Prediction error as a form of negative evidence in language…
PhD Student Yoonseo Kim publishes in TESOL Quarterly
Congratulations to PhD student Yoonseo Kim, who published in TESOL Quarterly! Her article, “Automated Essay Scoring With GPT-4 for a Local Placement Test: Investigating Prompting Strategies, Intra-Rater Reliability, and Alignment With Human Scores,” originated from her qualifying paper. The study…
Five SLS Professors among Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide
Five professors from the Department of Second Language Studies are among the top 2% of scientists in the world, according to Stanford University’s latest World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields. First…
Campus Huaka‘i co-founded by Dr. Christina Higgins featured in UH News
The Campus Huaka‘i, a campus tour focused on the Hawaiian history and ʻili ʻāina (land divisions), was featured in UH News in its May 6th issue. Along with some key areas of the campus, Dr. Christina Higgins, one of the…