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Ph.D. student Jieun Kim and M.A. student Maggie McGehee won the award for Best Student Presentation at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers 2023 Conference. Their presentation, “Streamlining a reading placement test: Insights from factor analysis and Rasch modeling”,…

Betsy Gilliland, Ph.D. students Michelle Kunkel, Thu Ha Nguyen, and former M.A. student Cade Christenson have published an article in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Title: Ethical dilemmas of teacher research in applied linguistics Abstract: Teacher research (TR) is teachers’…

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang recently received a Study Abroad Award from The Ministry of Education in Taiwan. The award is intended for Taiwanese individuals pursuing a Ph.D. degree in a distinguished program abroad. Applicants interested in the award are required…

As technology becomes more integrated within everyone’s lives, educators have always sought to apply technology within the classroom and help students to be successful in their studies. The field of language learning and teaching is no different. One of our…

Ph.D. Student Fred Zenker and colleagues who were formerly at UHM recently wrote a paper that was released in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Title: Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task…

Dustin Crowther, Daniel Isbell, and Ph.D. student Hitoshi Nishizawa was recently featured for their newly published article in Applied Psycholinguistics on Cambridge Core, published by Cambridge University Press. Title: Second language speech comprehensibility and acceptability in academic settings: Listener perceptions…

Congratulations to Shannon Pederson, an SLS student in our BA program, who was recently awarded a prestigious national Boren Scholarship! The Boren Scholarship will support Shannon during her 2023-2024 Korean Flagship Capstone Program at Korea University in Seoul. As a…