Category: News (page 8)

SLS PhD student Fred Zenker has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for his dissertation project titled “Resumptive Relative Clause Dependencies in the Processing of Second Language English.” To learn more about his dissertation project and award,…

Professors Nicole Ziegler and Marta González-Lloret co-edited a new book “The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology”, which was just released this month. Recent PhD graduate Kristin Rock co-authored a chapter titled “Tasks in Technology-Mediated Contexts” with Professor…

Congratulations to PhD students In Ji Sera Chun and Jieun Kim, who were both shortlisted for “The New Directions East Asia Best Student Research Idea 2021” award, sponsored by British Council. In support of their proposal, both Sera and Jieun…

PhD student Susanne DeVore received an ETS Small Grant for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment. The working title of her dissertation is “Syntactic Complexity in Mandarin and its Development.” Congratulations, Susanne!

We just wanted to share this picture from our graduation cooler last month where faculty, students, and staff gathered over Zoom to celebrate the end of the semester and the Fall 2021 graduates. A couple of our MA graduates and…

Earlier this month, PhD student Ha Nguyen received the CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation research is on the engagement of international students with Hawaiian language and culture specifically how international students experience the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a campus striving…

Kristin Rock, one of our recent Fall 2021 PhD graduates, will be joining Georgetown University as an Assistant Teaching Professor. She will be teaching three classes next spring on “How languages are learned”, “Communication, culture, & study abroad”, and “Statistics…

Huy Phung, one of our PhD candidates, received the Graduate Student Organization’s Rachel Wade Award for Service and Outreach for his work on the Multiʻōlelo Initiative. Huy studies how conversational interaction facilitates language acquisition and development. Working as a language…

(Photo credit: HEI) A new graduate certificate that educates and trains graduate students from various disciplines to collaborate and enact multilingual multicultural awareness and understanding in their professional practices will be offered at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa starting…