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Congratulations to PhD students In Ji Sera Chun and Jieun Kim, who were both shortlisted for “The New Directions East Asia Best Student Research Idea 2021” award, sponsored by British Council. In support of their proposal, both Sera and Jieun…

PhD student Susanne DeVore received an ETS Small Grant for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment. The working title of her dissertation is “Syntactic Complexity in Mandarin and its Development.” Congratulations, Susanne!

We just wanted to share this picture from our graduation cooler last month where faculty, students, and staff gathered over Zoom to celebrate the end of the semester and the Fall 2021 graduates. A couple of our MA graduates and…

Earlier this month, PhD student Ha Nguyen received the CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation research is on the engagement of international students with Hawaiian language and culture specifically how international students experience the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a campus striving…

Kristin Rock, one of our recent Fall 2021 PhD graduates, will be joining Georgetown University as an Assistant Teaching Professor. She will be teaching three classes next spring on “How languages are learned”, “Communication, culture, & study abroad”, and “Statistics…

Huy Phung, one of our PhD candidates, received the Graduate Student Organization’s Rachel Wade Award for Service and Outreach for his work on the Multiʻōlelo Initiative. Huy studies how conversational interaction facilitates language acquisition and development. Working as a language…

(Photo credit: HEI) A new graduate certificate that educates and trains graduate students from various disciplines to collaborate and enact multilingual multicultural awareness and understanding in their professional practices will be offered at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa starting…

Spring 2022 registration is open, and we would like to encourage undergraduate students to register for SLS 218, SLS 280, and SLS 490. Please see flyers below for details.

Professor Theres Grüter and Dr. Edith Kaan (University of Florida) co-edited a new book “Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning”, which was just released by John Benjamins Publishing Company. For a brief description of the book and its table…