Category: News (page 12)

The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has awarded an Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies award to our PhD student, Parvaneh Rezaee. She will receive $10,000 towards the completion of her dissertation “The Persian Particle dige in Professional – Client Interaction.” This fellowship was awarded to…

PhD student Hyeyoung Jung and Dr. Graham Crookes’ chapter in the Routledge Pop Culture in Language Education will be available soon. The chapter is entitled “The use of K-Pop culture in a critical EAP classroom.” Check it out here!

Special Session of the SLS Brown Bag Lecture Series: Teaching ESL in the Peace Corps Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00 to 4:00 pm To register, please visit http://go.hawaii.edu/3QJ Presenters: Stephanie Sang (Peace Corps Representative, UH Mānoa) Dr. Betsy Gilliland (Associate…

George Smith will be defending his dissertation on Wednesday, November 18 at 11:00 am HST over Zoom. Zoom meeting link: http://go.hawaii.edu/TM3 (no registration required). Title: An investigation of vocabulary size, individual differences, and metacognition in L2 listening comprehension Abstract: Research…

PhD alumnus Dr. Gavin Lamb and Dr. Christina Higgins’ chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies is available now. The chapter is entitled “Posthumanism and Its Implication for Discourse Studies.” Check it out here!

PhD alumnus Dr. Hyunwoo Kim and Dr. Theres Grüter’s publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is available now. The article is entitled “Predictive Processing of Implicit Causality in a Second Language: A Visual-World Eye-Tracking Study.” Check it out here!

Dr. Dongping Zheng will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming VietTESOL International Convention 2020 (October 15-16, 2020). The title of her keynote talk is “Creating Translanguaging Spaces for Skilled Linguistic Action.”

2021 JET Program Virtual Informational Sessions The Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu is pleased to announce the upcoming virtual Informational Sessions for the 2021 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program recruitment. The sessions, via Zoom, will be held on…

The Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invites applications to its PhD program from strong candidates with research interests in any area of second language learning, teaching, analysis, and use. A limited number of…