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M.A. Student Megan McGehee Receives Presidential Award for Outstanding Service

Megan “Maggie” McGehee is a current MA student in the SLS Department. This past week, she has been awarded the University of Hawai’i Presidential Award for Outstanding Service. The Presidential Award for Outstanding Services honors a UH Manoa staff member…

Speaking performances, stakeholder perceptions, and test scores: Extrapolating from the Duolingo English test to the universityDaniel Isbell, Dustin Crowther, Hitoshi Nishizawa

Journal: Language Testing Authors: Daniel Isbell, Dustin Crowther, Hitoshi Nishizawa Article: Speaking performances, stakeholder perceptions, and test scores: Extrapolating from the Duolingo English test to the university Abstract: The extrapolation of test scores to a target domain鈥攖hat is, association between…

Ph.D. Students Sera Chun and Michaela Nuesser Receive Faith C. Ai Memorial Scholarship

PhD students Sera Chun and Michaela Nuesser are both scholarship recipients of the Faith C. Ai Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to MA and PhD graduate students majoring in any subject (as long as they intend to teach), and…

Dustin Crowther and Daniel Isbell receives grant from APTIS

Congratulations to SLS faculty Dustin Crowther and Daniel Isbell, who have received a $20,925 US grant from the British Council to investigating the strength of association between speech intelligibility and comprehensibility across APTIS speaking tasks. This grant will additionally allow…

Dr. Gr眉ter and 10 SLS graduate students publish paper in SSLA based on Fall 2021 seminar project

Title: Language proficiency modulates listeners鈥 selective attention to a talker鈥檚 mouth: a conceptual replication of Birul茅s et al. (2020) Authors: Theres Gr眉ter, Jieun Kim, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Jue Wang, Raed Alzahrani, Yu-Tzu Chang, Hoan Nguyen, Michaela Nuesser, Akari Ohba, Sachiko Roos,…

Ph.D. student Daniel Holden Receive CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship

December of 2022, PhD candidate Daniel Holden received the CALL Uehiro Dissertation Fellowship. His dissertation research seeks to identify second language program administrators with a critical or social justice orientation in language schools on O’ahu, and asks them to describe…
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New publication in Second Language Researchby PhD candidate Wenyi Ling and Dr. Theres Gr眉ter

PhD candidate Wenyi Ling and Dr. Theres Gr眉ter鈥檚 Online First publication in Second Language Research is available now. The article is entitled 鈥淔rom sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin鈥. Check it…
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Yuka Matsutani awarded the Hannah Liebreich Merit Based Award for Teaching

The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) celebrates and honors exemplary teaching by currently enrolled graduate students. The Hannah Liebreich Merit Based Award in Teaching is important because it honors outstanding graduate students, reminds the campus that teaching is a central part…