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  Title: Embodied remembering in coordinated performances Abstract: Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis and past literature on synchronization, this study sheds light on the temporal properties of embodied remembering, which we define as co-operative enactment(s) of a mutually-established recollectable. Our…

Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim starts a Summer internship with ACTFL; the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Interns work with ACTFL staff members on special projects in various ACTFL departments, and enhance their resume while they learn valuable…

Ph.D. student Mayuko Yusa has received the Takie Sugiyama Lebra scholarship, a graduate fellowship from the Center for Japanese Studies, for Fall 2023 to Spring 2024. The Takie Sugiyama Lebra scholarship is for full-time graduate students enrolled in Japanese Studies…

Congratulations to Krissa Guevarra who has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship! Krissa will be teaching in South Korea in 2024. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the nation’s largest study abroad fellowship program, facilitating cultural exchange through…

Ph.D. student Yu-Tzu Chang, recently received two scholarships; The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Chung-Fong and Grace Ning Fund for Chinese Studies.  The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Graduate Fellowship Fund…

Megan “Maggie” McGehee is a current MA student in the SLS Department. This past week, she has been awarded the University of Hawai’i Presidential Award for Outstanding Service. The Presidential Award for Outstanding Services honors a UH Manoa staff member…

Journal: Language Testing Authors: Daniel Isbell, Dustin Crowther, Hitoshi Nishizawa Article: Speaking performances, stakeholder perceptions, and test scores: Extrapolating from the Duolingo English test to the university Abstract: The extrapolation of test scores to a target domain—that is, association between…

PhD students Sera Chun and Michaela Nuesser are both scholarship recipients of the Faith C. Ai Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to MA and PhD graduate students majoring in any subject (as long as they intend to teach), and…

Congratulations to SLS faculty Dustin Crowther and Daniel Isbell, who have received a $20,925 US grant from the British Council to investigating the strength of association between speech intelligibility and comprehensibility across APTIS speaking tasks. This grant will additionally allow…