Congratulations to MA student Uy-Di Nancy Le who was recently granted the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award. Nancy will travel to Germany to assist in teaching American studies and English language to German students. As a Fulbright recipient, Nancy will…
Recent Graduate Student Publications
2018 Choe, A. T. (2018). ‘Can anyone help her?’: Managing student embarrassment in the adult ESL classroom.聽Hacettepe University Journal of Education,聽33聽(Special Issue), 16-35. DOI: 10.16986/HUJE.2018038794 Kim, H. & Gru虉ter, T. (in press). Crosslinguistic activation of implicit causality biases in Korean…
Remembering Professor Emeritus in Linguistics Dr. Roderick “Ricky” Jacobs
Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Dr. Roderick “Ricky” Jacobs, passed away in his home in Decatur, Georgia, on June 22, 2018. He was 84. Dr. Jacobs served as Professor of Linguistics and ESL from 1973, and chaired the Department of ESL…
Professor Dr. Richard Day Awarded Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Meritorious Teaching
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Day, who has been awarded the 2018 University of聽Hawai驶i聽at M膩noa Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Meritorious Teaching. This prestigious award recognizes M膩noa faculty members who have made significant contributions to teaching and student learning. Dr. Day combines cutting-edge…
Associate Professor Dr. Betsy Gilliland Awarded Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Betsy Gilliland who was awarded the 2018 Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL). She is among a select group of recipients within the College of LLL to receive research,…
9/14: Fourth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition
Friday, September 14, 2018 Held at the University of Hawai鈥榠 at M膩noa Center for Korean Studies Schedule 1:30 p.m. Plenary Interpretations of Japanese reflexive pronouns by native and non-native speakers Professor Makiko Hirakawa, Chuo University 2:40 p.m. Poster Session A…
PhD Student Junichi Yagi Wins 2018 AAAL Graduate Student Award
Congratulations to PhD student Junichi Yagi, who was one of six awardees nationwide for the 2018 American Association for Applied Linguistics聽(AAAL) Graduate Student Award. The Graduate Student Award is a merit-based, competitive award that supports attendance of AAAL graduate student…
PhD Student Wenyi Ling Wins 2018 LLL Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
Congratulations to PhD student Wenyi Ling, who was selected to receive a 2018 LLL Award for Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation Research. Wenyi will be a featured speaker at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature,…
Associate Professor Dr. Betsy Gilliland Selected for Fulbright Award
Congratulations to Dr. Betsy Gilliland who has been selected to receive the coveted Fulbright Award for the Fall 2018 Semester. Dr. Gilliland will travel to the Universidad de Atacama in Chile where she will teach 4th year undergraduate English pedagogy…
2018 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
Hawai鈥檌 TESOL Spring 2018 Conference, Hawai鈥檌 Tokai International College, Kapolei, HI; February 17, 2018 Carrie Bach, George Smith, Hoa Le, Huy Phung, & Nicole Ziegler What are good tasks? Designing TBLT materials for the classroom Graham Crookes Multilingual multicultural initiative…