Congratulations to Dr. Betsy Gilliland who has been selected to receive the coveted Fulbright Award for the Fall 2018 Semester. Dr. Gilliland will travel to the Universidad de Atacama in Chile where she will teach 4th year undergraduate English pedagogy…
2018 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
Hawai’i TESOL Spring 2018 Conference, Hawai’i Tokai International College, Kapolei, HI; February 17, 2018 Carrie Bach, George Smith, Hoa Le, Huy Phung, & Nicole Ziegler What are good tasks? Designing TBLT materials for the classroom Graham Crookes Multilingual multicultural initiative…
PhD Students Anna Mendoza & Jayson Parba in the International Journal of Multilingualism
Congratulations to PhD students Anna Mendoza and Jayson Parba, who co-authored an article entitled, “Thwarted: relinquishing educator beliefs to understand translanguaging from learners’ point of view” in the International Journal of Multilingualism (https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1441843). Abstract This study took place in…
PhD Student Huy V. Phung Wins AAAL T-shirt Design Competition
Congratulations to PhD student, Huy V. Phung, who is the winner of the first American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) T-shirt design competition. Huy will be publicly recognized at the 2018 AAAL Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL, March 24–27,…
The Department of Second Language Studies Thanks the Bilinski Educational Foundation for Its Support
For the 7th year in a row, the Bilinski Educational Foundation will be supporting both the Department of Second Language Studies and the Department of Linguistics through the Bilinski Dissertation Fellowships, Pre-Dissertation Fellowships, and Pre-Dissertation Research Awards, awarding a combined…
SLS Alumna Jane George Selected as English Language Fellow
Congratulations to SLS Alumna Jane George (MA, ESL 1991) who was recently selected for a U.S. Department of State, English Language Fellow project in 2017-2018. Jane will be spending the year at Tajik State Pedagogical University (TSPU), Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The English Language Fellow…
2017 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
Interactional Skills and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Neuchâtel, Switzerland; January 19, 2017 Sangki Kim Conducting relational talk in service encounters in second-language English: A 30-month case study, in invited colloquium of Longitudinal Investigations into Interactional Competences International Conference…
SLS Undergraduates Michelle Akamine and Victoria Lee Receive Research Awards for Projects on Child Second Language Acquisition
Kudos to BA in SLS students Michelle Akamine and Victoria Lee, who have received awards from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for their projects documenting and analyzing a young Japanese boy’s English language development during a 1-year stay in Hawai‘i…
Inviting Applications to the MA Program in Second Language Studies – Achievement Scholarships Available
Achievement Scholarships for tuition assistance available for competitive applicants. Applications for Fall 2018 enrollment will be accepted through March 1, 2018.
PhD Student Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
Congratulations to Hyunwoo Kim for his dissertation project, “Cross-linguistic activation of referential bias in second-language learners of English”! Click title to learn more…