Congratulations to Professor Richard Day, who will be the keynote speaker, and PhD in SLS students Eunseok Ro and Jay Tanaka, who will be presenting at the “Extensive Reading Workshop at the Heart of the ER Frenzy” sponsored by the…
Dissertation Defense
Announcing
PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense
Jonathan Trace
A validation argument for cloze test item function in second language assessment
Chair: James Dean Brown
Monday March 14, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Moore Hall, Room 155A
ARCHIVE Spring 2016 Brown Bags
January 21. Testing the Teachability Hypothesis: A Systemic Theoretic Instruction Approach to Teach Chinese Word Order Presenter: Dr. Xian Zhang, Guandong University of Foreign Studies According to Pienemann’s (1984, 1987, 1989) Teachability Hypothesis (TH), formal instruction cannot affect the route of…
Dissertation Defense
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Munassir Alhamami Using Ajzen’s Theory to Examine Beliefs in EFL Face-to-Face and Online Lessons Chair: James Dean Brown Monday January 25, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A This mixed-methods dissertation investigated…
SLS Undergraduate Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel Receives $1,500 Undergraduate Research Award
Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel is the first SLS major to receive a research award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP, http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop) for her project “Study Abroad Students’ View of their L1 Community.” Rocky will conduct this project in the Spring…
SLS Major Promotes Seal of Biliteracy to DOE Principals
Reynold Kajiwara, a senior in the Department of Second Language Studies (SLS), was recently invited to speak as a panelist at the Hawai‘i Department of Education (DOE) Principals meeting. As a graduate of the public school system and now double-major…
Conversation Analysis Data Sessions – Fall 2015
The EMCA (ethnomethodology/conversation analysis) data session is a student-volunteered meeting where a group of students who are interested in interaction meet and engage in analysis of data provided by students. We meet every other Friday in Moore Hall 202, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30…
Thursday “Brown Bag”: Dr. Patricia Duff
November 5, 2015
12:00–1:15 p.m.
Researching Chinese as a Global Language: Trends, Issues, and Opportunities
Presenter:
Patricia A. Duff, Professor
Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
Photo Credit: “Creative Commons Chinesische Mauer” by Bernd Thaller is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
SLS EFL Practicum at Ubon Rachatani University, Thailand – Summer 2016
Since 2007, SLS students in the MA and PhD programs have taken SLS 690 EFL Practicum at Ubon Rachatani University, Thailand, during June and July. They taught intensive EFL courses to Thai students and gained valuable experience in learning to…
