Students in SLS 130, led by instructor Anne McCarrey and assisted by the Sato Center (Dr. Christina Higgins, Kent Sakoda, Gisella Kahapea), hosted “Bumbai You Learn,” a Pidgin outreach event on April 23, 2024 at Campus Center. The event featured…
SLS Ph.D. Alumna Mery Diez-Ortega hired at Stanford and Publishes Article
SLS Ph.D. Alumna Mery Diez-Ortega was recently hired as a lecturer at Stanford University. She also published an article, Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study, with former SLS assistant professor Kristopher Kyle.…
Washington Middle welcomes SLS to its after school program
Last month Washington Middle School welcomed SLS undergraduate advisor and coordinator Patrick Agullana to speak at its after school All-Star program! This was a great chance for Washington Middle School students to learn new things about languages and more about…
Welcome, New SLS Students!
New incoming students in the Department of Second Language Studies have been participating in various orientations and information sessions, including a general department orientation on Thursday, August 17th, and program-level orientations for our undergraduates, MA students, and PhD students throughout…
Fo Reel! Da Pidgin Film Festival
FO REEL! Da Pidgin Film Festival will showcase new and classic films featuring Pidgin by UH-system students and alumni. This first-time event is a collaboration between the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies, and the School for…
Volunteer tutors at Wai‘alae Elementary Public Charter School
SLS undergraduate and graduate students tutor K-5 Multilingual Language Learners (MLLs) at a local elementary school. Fall 2022 tutors (with Dr. Gilliland and Dr. Grüter; not pictured: Gisella Kahapea and Khyla Rabang)
Advisors Kenny Harsch & Priscilla Faucette receive Pakela Advising Award
Congratulations to Kenny Harsch & Priscilla Faucette on receiving the 2019 Pakela Advising Award, awarded by the Council of Academic Advisors (CAA)!
Summer 2017 Course Offerings
OFFERINGS FOR SUMMER 2017 (see further below for course descriptions) Summer Session 1 (May 22 – June 30, 2017) SLS 312 Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Reading and Writing (‘O’ focus) SLS 430 Pidgin & Creole English in Hawai`i (‘H’…
BA Program in SLS Gains “Established” Status
On December 15, 2017, the Academic and Student Affairs subcommittee of the Board of Regents approved a change for the BA program in Second Language Studies from “provisional” to “established program” status. It may seem surprising that our BA program…
SLS undergraduate Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel receives $1,500 undergraduate research award
Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel is the first SLS major to receive a research award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP, http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop) for her project “Study Abroad Students’ View of their L1 Community.” Rocky will conduct this project in the Spring…