For the 7th year in a row, the Bilinski Educational Foundation will be supporting both the Department of Second Language Studies and the Department of Linguistics through the Bilinski Dissertation Fellowships, Pre-Dissertation Fellowships, and Pre-Dissertation Research Awards, awarding a combined…
May 2: Dissertation Defense – Jayson E. Parba
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Jayson E. Parba Empowering the Filipino Language Classroom: Towards Critical Pedagogy and Curriculum Chair: Graham Crookes Wednesday, May 2, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Abstract This dissertation research is situated…
April 20–21: Open Science Symposium
March 9 Dissertation Defense – Jing Zhou
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Jing Zhou Component Skills of Reading among Learners of Chinese as a Second Language Chair: Richard R. Day Friday, March 9, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A Abstract The component-skill approach…
March 14 SLS Occasional Talk – Dr. Melanie Peffer
STEM and linguistics: Modeling scientific epistemology using linguistic analysis March 14, 2018 Wednesday 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Moore Hall 155A Presenter: Melanie Peffer, University of Northern Colorado Melanie earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of…
SLS Alumna Jane George Selected as English Language Fellow
Congratulations to SLS Alumna Jane George (MA, ESL 1991) who was recently selected for a U.S. Department of State, English Language Fellow project in 2017-2018. Jane will be spending the year at Tajik State Pedagogical University (TSPU), Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The English Language Fellow…
2017 Conference Presentations by SLS Graduate Students and Faculty
Interactional Skills and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Neuchâtel, Switzerland; January 19, 2017 Sangki Kim Conducting relational talk in service encounters in second-language English: A 30-month case study, in invited colloquium of Longitudinal Investigations into Interactional Competences International Conference…
SLS Undergraduates Michelle Akamine and Victoria Lee Receive Research Awards for Projects on Child Second Language Acquisition
Kudos to BA in SLS students Michelle Akamine and Victoria Lee, who have received awards from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for their projects documenting and analyzing a young Japanese boy’s English language development during a 1-year stay in Hawai‘i…
Inviting Applications to the MA Program in Second Language Studies – Achievement Scholarships Available
Achievement Scholarships for tuition assistance available for competitive applicants. Applications for Fall 2018 enrollment will be accepted through March 1, 2018.
PhD Student Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
Congratulations to Hyunwoo Kim for his dissertation project, “Cross-linguistic activation of referential bias in second-language learners of English”! Click title to learn more…

