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Dr. Holger Hopp and Dr. Theres Grüter’s publication in Second Language Research is available now. The article is titled “The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming.” Check it out here!

Dr. Christina Higgins’ chapter in the Routledge Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education: Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies is now available. The chapter is titled “Promoting Pidgin at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” Check it out here! See podcasts…

Congratulations to our PhD student, Mery Diez Ortega, for receiving the AAAL 2021 Graduate Student Award and the CALICO 2021 Robert A. Fischer Outstanding Graduate Student Award this year!

SLS Faculty Dr. Daniel R. Isbell published an article in Language Assessment Quarterly. The article is titled “Can the Test Support Student Learning? Validating the Use of a Second Language Pronunciation Diagnostic. (시험은 학습자의 학습을 도와 줄 수 있는가? 제2언어…

Wenyi Ling will be defending her dissertation on Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 am HST over Zoom. Zoom meeting link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96049001788 (no registration required) Title: The perception, processing, and learning of Mandarin lexical tone by second language speakers Abstract: This…

Ann Choe, PhD student Representing the Temporality of Collaborative Embodied Action in Multimodal Transcripts A linguistic analysis of the communication demands in typical technology-mediated learning environments (with Kristopher Kyle & Masaki Eguchi) Dr. Dustin Crowther & Dr. Daniel Isbell Who…

Dr. Gabriele Kasper’s and PhD alumna Elham Monfaredi’s chapter in the Routledge Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective will be available soon. The chapter is titled “Storytelling as Instructional Practice in Persian Language Classrooms.” Check it out here!

We are offering Summer 2021 courses online. The list of online summer courses and descriptions are available here: https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/summer-2021/. Please also see flyer below for online courses offered as part of the Multilingual Multicultural Summer Institute.     UH students can register…

PhD Student Fred Zenker and SLS Affiliate Faculty Dr. Kristopher Kyle published an article in Assessing Writing. The article is titled “Investigating minimum text lengths for lexical diversity indices.” Check it out here!

Associate Professor Betsy Gilliland and former SLS visiting colleague Meryl Siegal co-edited the book “Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher”, which was just released by University of Michigan Press. The book includes practical teaching suggestions and research on first-year…