News Archives - Department of Second Language Studies

Jieun Kim wins Duolingo English Test Dissertation Award

Jieun Kim, PhD candidate, is one of eight recipients of the 2024 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award. Through our annual Doctoral Dissertation Awards, the Duolingo English Test (DET) proudly recognizes and celebrates outstanding doctoral research in the field of…

PhD Graduate Alice (Yanxin) Zhu publishes two articles

PhD Graduate Dr. Alice (Yanxin) Zhu (2024) recently published two articles in two separate journals: “Native speakers and learners of Mandarin predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb constraints” in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition “Structural…

MA Graduate Hoan Nguyen publishes in Linguistic Approaches to BIlingualism

MA Graduate Hoan Nguyen (2024) published her co-authored paper “Facilitative use of classifiers in heritage Vietnamese” with MA advisor Dr. Theres Grüter in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. The article was based on her Scholarly Paper, and is available in full.…

Elizabeth Spann Award awarded to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim

The College of Arts, Languages and Letters have awarded an Elizabeth Spann Award to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim, for their research proposal on Korean vocabulary lists based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Jieun and…

TIRF 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grants Awarded to Two SLS Students

The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) has announced its 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grants awardees, which include two SLS students: Name & Bio: Jieun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i…

PhD student Sera Chun publishes in Journal of Pragmatics

PhD student Inji “Sera” Chun has recently published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 232 (October 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.002), with an article titled “Teacher mobility during small-group instructional rounds for young EFL learners: An embodied resource to promote students’ task engagement.”…