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Jieun Kim wins Duolingo English Test Dissertation Award

Jieun Kim, PhD candidate, is one of eight recipients of the 2024 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award. Through our annual Doctoral Dissertation Awards, the Duolingo English Test (DET) proudly recognizes and celebrates outstanding doctoral research in the field of…

Elizabeth Spann Award awarded to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim

The College of Arts, Languages and Letters have awarded an Elizabeth Spann Award to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim, for their research proposal on Korean vocabulary lists based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Jieun and…

SLS BA Student Christopher Ramirez Dances with UHM Ballroom Dance Club to National Championship

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…

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