August 24 Starting off on the Right Foot: Advising Session for New MA Students Presenter: Christina Higgins, Professor & Graduate Chair, Second Language Studies, UH-Mānoa 1. Navigating your MA progress We will examine the MA advising form together and talk…
Third Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition
Friday, September 15, 2017 Held at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Center for Korean Studies Pavillion 1881 East-West Road Schedule: 13:30-14:30 Plenary Lecture Professor Yuki Hirose, The University of Tokyo “Predictive processing of novel compounds in adults and children” 14:40-15:30…
ARCHIVE Spring 2017 Brown Bags
January 26 Effect of Tracking Authentic Video Clips on the Enhancing of Comprehensibility and Intelligibility of L2 Speech: A Mixed-Methods-Approach Presenter: Dianning Qu, Central South University, China Though achieving successful communication and near nativelike standards tend to be the ideal…
May 19 Dissertation Defense – Justin Cubilo
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Justin Cubilo Video-Mediated Listening Passages and Typed Note-Taking: Examining Their Effects on Examinees’ Listening Test Performance and Item Characteristics Chair: James Dean Brown Friday, May 19, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room…
May 9 Dissertation Defense – Bonnie Sylwester
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Bonnie Sylwester Impact of Program Assessment in Higher Education: A Case of an Applied Linguistics Program Chair: Thom Hudson Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 10:00 a.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A While program-level assessment…
May 12 Dissertation Defense – Mari Miyao
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Mari Miyao The processing of referential expressions in discourse by Chinese and Japanese L2 learners of English Chair: Bonnie D. Schwartz Friday, May 12, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Referential expressions…
SLS Thanks Dr. Thom Hudson for 27+ Years of Service
Article by Lucas Edmond, current MA student in SLS After 27 and a half years serving the Department of Second Language Studies, Dr. Thom Hudson retired this December. While his research interests have evolved over the years, he has primarily…
Dissertation Defense
Announcing
PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense
Sangki Kim
Stabilization of Idiosyncratic Fixed Expressions in the Wild:
A Longitudinal Conversation Analytic Perspective
Chair: Gabriele Kasper
Wednesday 29 March, 14:00–16:00
Moore Hall, Room 155A
Call for Submissions: Fo Reel! Da Pidgin Film Festival
New Deadline submission: February 26, 2017 Fo Reel! Da Pidgin Film Festival This film festival will be the first annual film festival showcasing existing films produced by University of Hawai‘i System students that are in and/or about Pidgin. The top 10…
SLS BA Program Gains “Established” Status
On December 15, 2016, the Academic and Student Affairs subcommittee of the Board of Regents approved a change for the BA program in Second Language Studies from “provisional” to “established” program status. It may seem surprising that our BA program…