This past Friday (12/8) the SLS Student Association (SLSSA) hosted a Grad Cooler to celebrate the end of the semester and to congratulate our graduates! Here are pictures of some of the graduates who attended the event! Congratulations everyone!!
Washington Middle welcomes SLS to its after school program
Last month Washington Middle School welcomed SLS undergraduate advisor and coordinator Patrick Agullana to speak at its after school All-Star program! This was a great chance for Washington Middle School students to learn new things about languages and more about…
Karaoke Night 2023!
Karaoke Night returned this year after a four year hiatus! This was hosted by Christina Higgins and Betsy Gilliland, and it was the most multilingual Karaoke Night yet, featuring songs in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hawaiian, and English. What a fun way…
Jieun Kim and Maggie McGehee awarded Best Student Presentation Award
Ph.D. student Jieun Kim and M.A. student Maggie McGehee won the award for Best Student Presentation at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers 2023 Conference. Their presentation, “Streamlining a reading placement test: Insights from factor analysis and Rasch modeling”,…
Newly Published Article: Betsy Gilliland, Michelle Kunkel, Thu Ha Nguyen, Cade Christensen
Betsy Gilliland, Ph.D. students Michelle Kunkel, Thu Ha Nguyen, and former M.A. student Cade Christenson have published an article in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Title: Ethical dilemmas of teacher research in applied linguistics Abstract: Teacher research (TR) is teachers’…
PhD Student Yu-Tzu Chang receives Study Abroad Award from The Ministry of Education in Taiwan
Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang recently received a Study Abroad Award from The Ministry of Education in Taiwan. The award is intended for Taiwanese individuals pursuing a Ph.D. degree in a distinguished program abroad. Applicants interested in the award are required…
Newly Published Article: Ph.D. Student Fred Zenker and colleagues
Ph.D. Student Fred Zenker and colleagues who were formerly at UHM recently wrote a paper that was released in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Title: Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task…
Newly Published Article: Dustin Crowther, Daniel Isbell and Hitoshi Nishizawa
Dustin Crowther, Daniel Isbell, and Ph.D. student Hitoshi Nishizawa was recently featured for their newly published article in Applied Psycholinguistics on Cambridge Core, published by Cambridge University Press. Title: Second language speech comprehensibility and acceptability in academic settings: Listener perceptions…
Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim wins 2023 MwALT Best Student Paper Award
Ph.D. Student Jieun Kim won the 2023 MwALT Best Student Paper Award! The paper is titled “Test takers’ interaction with context videos in a video-based listening test: A conceptual replication and extension of Suvorov (2015)” Abstract The present study conceptually…
Student Publications: August 2023
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…