Category: News (page 7)

A startup company helping people learn different languages is the winner of the 2022 University of Hawaiʻi Venture Competition. Great Online Activities for Language Learning (GOALL), led by four of our PhD students, won a prize package of more than $34,000.…

Today, Kenny Harsch (Director of the English Language Institute and the BA coordinator/advisor) and Hoa Le (PhD student) will be recognized at an in-person ceremony at Kennedy Theatre at 3:30 pm today. Kenny will receive this year’s Presidential Award for…

Dr. Dan Isbell’s and Dr. Junkyu Lee’s publication in Language Learning is available now. The article is titled “Self-Assessment of Comprehensibility and Accentedness in Second Language Korean.” Check it out here!

Two of our PhD students, Crystal Jing Zhou and Hoa Le, were awarded the 2022 National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages Graduate Research Support Grant. To view more details, please…

Huy Phung, one of our PhD students, received an award at the American Association for Applied Linguistics for Distinguished Service and/or Engaged Research Graduate Student Award in Relation to Diversity Efforts. His research focuses on how languages are learned, and…

Please join us for a here-or-there talk by Dr. Stuart Webb. The talk will take place in Biomedical Sciences Building Room T211 and over Zoom. To register, please visit http://go.hawaii.edu/xmw.

Congratulations to PhD student Hitoshi Nishizawa who recently received a scholarship from the Japanese Student Services Organization (JASSO) to support his dissertation research titled “Adaptation to foreign accents by English language learners’. To learn more about JASSO, please see the…

PhD student Hitoshi Nishizawa recently published an article in Language Testing with SLS faculty member Dr. Daniel Isbell and current visiting scholar Dr. Yuichi Suzuki. Hitoshi et. al’s article titled “Review of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test” reviews a commonly used…

Yuka Matsutani, one of our PhD candidates, received a dissertation grant from the International Writing Center Association. Only one recipient is awarded per academic year. Congratulations to Yuka for receiving this highly competitive award! For more details on this award,…

Professor Christina Higgins co-edited a new book “Diversifying Family Language Policy” with Dr. Lyn Wright (University of Memphis), which was released at the end of last year. Also, one of our PhD alumna, Dr. Hakyoon Lee, authored a chapter in…