Hawai’i TESOL Spring 2018 Conference, Hawai’i Tokai International College, Kapolei, HI; February 17, 2018 Carrie Bach, George Smith, Hoa Le, Huy Phung, & Nicole Ziegler What are good tasks? Designing TBLT materials for the classroom Graham Crookes Multilingual multicultural initiative…
PhD Students Anna Mendoza & Jayson Parba in the International Journal of Multilingualism
Congratulations to PhD students Anna Mendoza and Jayson Parba, who co-authored an article entitled, “Thwarted: relinquishing educator beliefs to understand translanguaging from learners’ point of view” in the International Journal of Multilingualism (https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1441843). Abstract This study took place in…
PhD Student Huy V. Phung Wins AAAL T-shirt Design Competition
Congratulations to PhD student, Huy V. Phung, who is the winner of the first American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) T-shirt design competition. Huy will be publicly recognized at the 2018 AAAL Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL, March 24–27,…
The Department of Second Language Studies Thanks the Bilinski Educational Foundation for Its Support
For the 7th year in a row, the Bilinski Educational Foundation will be supporting both the Department of Second Language Studies and the Department of Linguistics through the Bilinski Dissertation Fellowships, Pre-Dissertation Fellowships, and Pre-Dissertation Research Awards, awarding a combined…
May 2: Dissertation Defense – Jayson E. Parba
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Jayson E. Parba Empowering the Filipino Language Classroom: Towards Critical Pedagogy and Curriculum Chair: Graham Crookes Wednesday, May 2, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Abstract This dissertation research is situated…
April 20–21: Open Science Symposium
March 9 Dissertation Defense – Jing Zhou
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Jing Zhou Component Skills of Reading among Learners of Chinese as a Second Language Chair: Richard R. Day Friday, March 9, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Abstract The component-skill approach…
March 14 SLS Occasional Talk – Dr. Melanie Peffer
STEM and linguistics: Modeling scientific epistemology using linguistic analysis March 14, 2018 Wednesday 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Moore Hall 155A Presenter: Melanie Peffer, University of Northern Colorado Melanie earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of…
SLS Alumna Jane George Selected as English Language Fellow
Congratulations to SLS Alumna Jane George (MA, ESL 1991) who was recently selected for a U.S. Department of State, English Language Fellow project in 2017-2018. Jane will be spending the year at Tajik State Pedagogical University (TSPU), Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The English Language Fellow…
2017 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
Interactional Skills and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Neuchâtel, Switzerland; January 19, 2017 Sangki Kim Conducting relational talk in service encounters in second-language English: A 30-month case study, in invited colloquium of Longitudinal Investigations into Interactional Competences International Conference…