We are excited to share that Jeanine Markley, an MA Student in SLS, has been selected to receive a $500 Kalo Grant to help fund her project, the “Simple Connected Speech App” which is a tool she created that helps…
PhD Student Ayano Kawasaki Published in Language Teaching Research
We are happy to share that Ayano Kawasaki, a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has recently published an article, “Bridging the research–pedagogy gap: ESL teachers’ beliefs about L2 fluency…
PhD Students Alexander Tang and David Honeycutt Published in Learning Language Technology
We offer congratulations to two of our SLS PhD students, Alexander F. Tang and David B. Honeycutt, for their technology in practice forum publication in a Language Learning & Technology (LLT), edited by Matt Kessler! LLT is the flagship…
Dr. Betsy Gilliland an Invited Speaker at the 2026 RELC International Conference
Dr. Betsy Gilliland was one of the invited speakers at the 60th RELC International Conference (RELC) held at Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization’s Regional Language Centre from March 9th through March 11th, 2026. Dr. Gilliland’s talks were titled, “Practice…
PhD Student Ayano Kawasaki Published in TESOL Quarterly
We are excited to share that Ayano Kawasaki, a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has published her article, “GELT vs. ELT: Competing Paradigms in L1-Flavored-English Translanguaging in an ESL…
SLS PhD Students Receive Elizabeth Spann Award for Research on L2 English Overpassivization
Congratulations to Ayoung Chung (PhD student, group leader) and Joonhee Kim (PhD student) for receiving the Elizabeth Spann Award in the amount of $2,000 from the College of Arts, Languages & Letters (CALL) Dean’s Office! Their research project, titled “Investigating…
PhD student Sera Chun Publishes in Language Teaching Research
Congratulations to the PhD student In Ji (Sera) Chun whose article entitled “Exploring teacher mediation and learner responsiveness in small-group online dynamic assessment for L2 academic writing development” is now published in Language Teaching Research (https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251368635)! Abstract: Research on groupdynamic assessment…
PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker lands Post-Doctoral position at TU Braunschweig
PhD Alumnus Fred Zenker (2024) has been accepted for a three-year postdoc with Prof. Holger Hopp in the Department of English Linguistics at TU Braunschweig. He is excited for this new chapter is his career, which officially started on October…
Dr. Theres Grüter Plenary Speaker at 2025 ALAK International Conference
Dr. Theres Grüter was the plenary speaker at the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) International Conference held at Seoul National University on September 20, 2025. The conference was organized by Kitaek Kim (PhD 2014). Dr. Grüter’s talk was…
SLSSA Fall 2025 Retreat
Fall 2025 Second Language Studies Student Association (SLSSA) Retreat ☀️ Mahalo to SLSSA (@uhmslssa) for organizing such a wonderful retreat at Ala Moana Beach Park! The day began with a beach social featuring Human Bingo, the Earn a PhD in…