Friday, September 15, 2017 Held at University of Hawai鈥榠 at M膩noa Center for Korean Studies Pavillion 1881 East-West Road Schedule: 13:30-14:30 Plenary Lecture Professor Yuki Hirose, The University of Tokyo “Predictive processing of novel compounds in adults and children” 14:40-15:30…
ARCHIVE Spring 2017 Brown Bags
January 26 Effect of Tracking Authentic Video Clips on the Enhancing of Comprehensibility and Intelligibility of L2 Speech: A Mixed-Methods-Approach Presenter: Dianning Qu, Central South University, China Though achieving successful communication and near nativelike standards tend to be the ideal…
PhD in SLS Student Mark Wilding Recognized with Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Congratulations to Mark Wilding, PhD in SLS Student, for being recognized with聽Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Assistant! Click title to learn more…
Charlene Junko Sato Memorial Scholarship
Scholarships of up to $1,500 are available for students at any University of Hawai鈥榠 campus to engage in research or outreach. Click title to learn more…
May 19 Dissertation Defense – Justin Cubilo
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Justin Cubilo Video-Mediated Listening Passages and Typed Note-Taking: Examining Their Effects on Examinees’ Listening Test Performance and Item Characteristics Chair: James Dean Brown Friday, May 19, 11:00 a.m.鈥�1:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room…
May 9 Dissertation Defense – Bonnie Sylwester
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Bonnie Sylwester Impact of Program Assessment in Higher Education: A Case of an Applied Linguistics Program Chair: Thom Hudson Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 10:00 a.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A While program-level assessment…
May 12 Dissertation Defense – Mari Miyao
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Mari Miyao The processing of referential expressions in discourse by Chinese and Japanese L2 learners of English Chair: Bonnie D. Schwartz Friday, May 12, 2:00鈥�4:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Referential expressions…
Language Acquisition Reading Group (LARG)
The Language Acquisition Reading Group is a research group intended to foster and develop research in first or second language acquisition, as well as related issues such as first language attrition and aphasia. All theoretical approaches are welcome, though there…
SLS Thanks Dr. Thom Hudson for 27+ Years of Service
Article by Lucas Edmond, current MA student in SLS After 27 and a half years serving the Department of Second Language Studies, Dr. Thom Hudson retired this December. While his research interests have evolved over the years, he has primarily…
Summer 2017 Course Offerings
OFFERINGS FOR SUMMER 2017 (see further below for course descriptions) Summer Session 1 (May 22 – June 30, 2017) SLS 312聽 Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Reading and Writing (‘O’ focus) SLS 430聽 Pidgin & Creole English in Hawai`i (‘H’…