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Global Teaching Institute (GTI) at Tokyo International University Information and Recruitment Session

Information and recruitment session scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at Moore 551 (SLS Conference Room) For more information about the GTI and its programs, see the following links: GTI Official Website: https://tiugti.com/ GTI Introduction…

SLS PhD students Bethany Schwartz and Fred Zenker awarded Language Learning Dissertation Grant

Bethany Schwartz and Fred Zenker, both PhD students in SLS, have been awarded the Language Learning Dissertation Grant. Bethany will use her $2,000 grant for data collection in Wai‘anae for her dissertation entitled “Patterns and Effects of Style-Shifting in Pidgin…

Presentation by visiting Sookmyung Women’s University students

English Code-switching in Korean Society: Reflection of TESL This presentation is about code-switching between Korean and English in Korean society. This will be specified by data collected and analyzed by Sookmyung TESL major students. The main point that emerges is…

Education First (EF) Honolulu ESL Teacher Recruitment Session

Fifth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition: Schedule

Friday, January 17th, 2020Center for Korean StudiesUniversity of Hawai′i at Mānoa Everyone is welcome to attend – no registration required. Refreshments will be provided. 13:30 – 14:40 Plenary Lecture: The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states by Prof.…

Kenny Harsch & Priscilla Faucette receive 2019 Pakela Advising Award

Congratulations to Kenny Harsch & Priscilla Faucette on receiving the 2019 Pakela Advising Award, awarded by the Council of Academic Advisors (CAA)! The following is quoted from the CAA website: Pakela Award Priscilla Faucette & Kenton (Kenny) Harsch are the Associate Director…

MA Graduate Les Black Hired as Assistant Professor at Ehime University

Fall 2019 graduate Les Black has been hired at Ehime University as an Assistant Professor specializing in English Language Teaching starting April 1st, 2020. Congratulations!

SLS Brown Bag 11/14: BAM Pathway Presentation

The SLS Brown Bag Lecture Series on November 14th, 2019 featured the Mānoa campus’ first ever “BAM” (Bachelor’s & Master’s) Pathway experience & feedback presentation hosted by current MA students Victoria Lee and Magdelena Petko.

[PhD Graduate Updates] Dr. Gavin Lamb (2019), Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Jyväskylä in Finland

Congratulations to Gavin Lamb, who is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in RECLAS (Research Collegium for Language in Changing Society) co-run by the departments of Language and Communication Studies and the Center for Applied Language Studies at the University…

[Event] Moʻolelo of Mānoa: A Campus Huakaʻi (tour)

To be held every second Friday of the month starting January 2020 (tent.) 9-10:30 am Meeting point: Kamakakūokalani Building, next to the library and Rainbow Shuttle stop (Hawaiian Studies)Alakaʻi (tour guides): Punihei Lipe and Christina Higgins Please join us on this huakaʻi (tour), where we orient ourselves to UHM…

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