The October 2016 issue (Volume 28, Number 2) of the electronic journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is now online.
PhD Student Wenyi Ling Awarded NSF Grant to Study Learners’ Processing and Use of Tones in Mandarin Chinese
Congratulations to PhD student Wenyi Ling, who has received a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project “The Perception, Processing and Learning of Mandarin Tone by Second Language Speakers”! Additional details about Wenyi’s…
Recent Graduate Student Publications
2018 Choe, A. T. (2018). ‘Can anyone help her?’: Managing student embarrassment in the adult ESL classroom. Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 33 (Special Issue), 16-35. DOI: 10.16986/HUJE.2018038794 Kim, H. & Grüter, T. (in press). Crosslinguistic activation of implicit causality biases in Korean…
Remembering Professor Emeritus in Linguistics Dr. Roderick “Ricky” Jacobs
Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Dr. Roderick “Ricky” Jacobs, passed away in his home in Decatur, Georgia, on June 22, 2018. He was 84. Dr. Jacobs served as Professor of Linguistics and ESL from 1973, and chaired the Department of ESL…
2018 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
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…
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…