Announcing
PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense
Alfred Rue Burch
Motivation in Interaction: A Conversation-Analytic Perspective
Chair: Gabriele Kasper
Thursday May 5, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Moore Hall, Room 258
Language Learning Small Research Grant Awarded to Dr. Theres Grüter
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Theres Grüter, who was recently awarded a Language Learning Small Research Grant for “Processing of Classifiers in L1 and L2 Mandarin Chinese.” Collaborators on this project are PhD in SLS student Wenyi Ling and recent graduate…
Take a Course Online
If you are interested in taking one or more of our graduate classes as an online, distance student, you can enroll as a 鶹ýOutreach Extension student, and register for SLS classes listed on their website. Please contact the Chair,…
Extensive Reading Workshop Sponsored by Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Congratulations to Professor Richard Day, who will be the keynote speaker, and PhD in SLS students Eunseok Ro and Jay Tanaka, who will be presenting at the “Extensive Reading Workshop at the Heart of the ER Frenzy” sponsored by the…
Dissertation Defense
Announcing
PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense
Jonathan Trace
A validation argument for cloze test item function in second language assessment
Chair: James Dean Brown
Monday March 14, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Moore Hall, Room 155A
ARCHIVE Spring 2016 Brown Bags
January 21. Testing the Teachability Hypothesis: A Systemic Theoretic Instruction Approach to Teach Chinese Word Order Presenter: Dr. Xian Zhang, Guandong University of Foreign Studies According to Pienemann’s (1984, 1987, 1989) Teachability Hypothesis (TH), formal instruction cannot affect the route of…
Dissertation Defense
Announcing PhD in Second Language Studies Dissertation Defense Munassir Alhamami Using Ajzen’s Theory to Examine Beliefs in EFL Face-to-Face and Online Lessons Chair: James Dean Brown Monday January 25, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Moore Hall, Room 155A This mixed-methods dissertation investigated…
SLS Undergraduate Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel Receives $1,500 Undergraduate Research Award
Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel is the first SLS major to receive a research award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP, http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop) for her project “Study Abroad Students’ View of their L1 Community.” Rocky will conduct this project in the Spring…
SLS Major Promotes Seal of Biliteracy to DOE Principals
Reynold Kajiwara, a senior in the Department of Second Language Studies (SLS), was recently invited to speak as a panelist at the Hawai‘i Department of Education (DOE) Principals meeting. As a graduate of the public school system and now double-major…
SLS undergraduate Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel receives $1,500 undergraduate research award
Raquel (Rocky) Reinagel is the first SLS major to receive a research award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP, http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop) for her project “Study Abroad Students’ View of their L1 Community.” Rocky will conduct this project in the Spring…