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Fall 2025 Second Language Studies Student Association (SLSSA) Retreat 鈽�锔� 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…

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 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…

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 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…

The Campus Huaka鈥榠, a campus tour focused on the Hawaiian history and 驶ili 驶膩ina (land divisions), was featured in 糖心视频 News in its May 6th issue. Along with some key areas of the campus, Dr. Christina Higgins, one of the…

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!

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…

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…