On August 22, 2025 we welcomed new and returning students at the SLS Department Orientation and SLSSA (@uhmslssa) Fall 2025 Welcome Cooler . It was the perfect chance to connect, recharge, and kick off the semester strong. We also hosted…
SLS Professor Dr. Theres Gr眉ter invited to speak at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference!
SLS Professor, Dr. Theres Gr眉ter was the invited speaker at The Japan Second Language Association’s 25th annual international conference! In her talk titled “Why being surprised is a good thing: Prediction error as a form of negative evidence in language…
PhD Student Yoonseo Kim publishes in TESOL Quarterly
Congratulations to PhD student Yoonseo Kim, who published in TESOL Quarterly! Her article, 鈥淎utomated Essay Scoring With GPT-4 for a Local Placement Test: Investigating Prompting Strategies, Intra-Rater Reliability, and Alignment With Human Scores,鈥� originated from her qualifying paper. The study…
Five SLS Professors among Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide
Five professors from the Department of Second Language Studies are among the top 2% of scientists in the world, according to Stanford University鈥檚 latest World鈥檚 Top 2% Scientists list, which identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields. First…
Campus Huaka鈥榠 co-founded by Dr. Christina Higgins featured in 麻豆传媒News
The Campus Huaka鈥榠, a campus tour focused on the Hawaiian history and 驶ili 驶膩ina (land divisions), was featured in 麻豆传媒News in its May 6th issue. Along with some key areas of the campus, Dr. Christina Higgins, one of the…
Dr. Betsy Gilliland wins CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Betsy Gilliland has been awarded the CALL Award for Excellence in Teaching! She was recognized in the Spring 2025 issue of CALL Lately. Congratulations, Dr. Gilliland!
SLS Gets Students Ready for Faculty-Sponsored Study Tours
The SLS Summer Abroad Pre-Departure Meeting brought together students preparing to go abroad during the Summer of 2025. Participants connected with fellow travelers, heard valuable advice from past students who went to the Deep Dive Program through CCS-Peking University, and…
Sera Chun wins Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award
PhD Student Sera Chun has won the 2025 Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award for her work on her dissertation titled “Second language teachers’ cognition and practices for pronunciation-focused instruction.” The Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award provides support to dissertation-level doctoral…
Congratulations Asia Gillette, Faith C. Ai Scholarship Awardee
MA student Asia Gillette is one of the recipients of the 2025 Faith C. Ai Scholarship, a $5,000 award for students who intend to teach after graduation and are in or from the state of Hawai鈥榠. Congratulations, Asia!
Elizabeth Spann Award awarded to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim
The College of Arts, Languages and Letters have awarded an Elizabeth Spann Award to PhD students Jieun Kim and Yoonseo Kim, for their research proposal on Korean vocabulary lists based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Jieun and…