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PhD student Sera Chun publishes in Journal of Pragmatics

PhD student Inji “Sera” Chun has recently published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 232 (October 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.002), with an article titled “Teacher mobility during small-group instructional rounds for young EFL learners: An embodied resource to promote students’ task engagement.”…

SLS Faculty in the press: Theres Gr眉ter, Dan Isbell

Our SLS Faculty have recently been in the general press, talking about second (or more) languages and language learning! Dr. Theres Gr眉ter was featured in Island Scene talking about ‘the power of language.’ The digital version was available in December…

Welcome to SLS! Fall 2024

The Department of Second Language Studies held its annual Department Orientation on Friday, August 23rd, which was followed by a Welcome Cooler hosted by the SLS Student Association. Faculty, staff, and students were able to meet each other informally over…

SLS PhD group launch GOALL app for language learning

SLS PhD alumni Ann T. Choe (2023), Susanne DeVore (2022), and Yang (Sunnie) Liu (2023), as well as current PhD student Kristen Urada, have recently launched the beta version of GOALL. An acronym for “Great Online Activities for Language Learning,”…

SLS BA Student Christopher Ramirez Dances with UHM Ballroom Dance Club to National Championship

SLS BA student Christopher Ramirez is a member of a 10-student Ballroom Dance Club at UH. They waltzed, foxtrotted, and chacha’d their way into a national title in March of this year. The club won first place for the “highest…

SLS 312 Class Has Book Sharing Day with Wai’alae Elementary School

The students of SLS 312 went to Wai’alae Elementary School on April 15, 2024 (World Book Day) and worked with the first graders in the Wai’alae after school program to create an alphabet book.聽 The book was later printed for…

SLS 130 hosts Pidgin outreach event

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 returns to Washington Middle School

In mid-April, SLS undergraduate advisor and coordinator Patrick Agullana was welcomed back to the After School All-Star program at Washington Middle School. As this was the second visit to Washington Middle, everyone was eager to hear again from the SLS…

SLS Faculty and Students in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference) Trip

Dr. Isbell, Yoonseo Kim, Ces Ann Jocson, Maggie McGehee, and Nicholas Coney had a very successful conference trip in LARC (Language Assessment Research Conference). The following is a list of presentations that they were involved in: Evaluating the Use of…

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Award

Ph.D. Student Yu-Tzu Chang receives the NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for her dissertation project titled “Aspect and Event Cognition in the Acquisition and Processing of a Second Language”. This award reflects NSF’s statutory mission…

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