Russian Studies
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Moore 458
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-4167
Certificate Offered: Certificate in Russian Studies
To receive a Certificate in Russian Studies a student must complete certain requirements in addition to a regular major. These are advanced reading and conversation courses in Russian, equivalent to at least the third-year level, and 9 credit hours of work, exclusive of courses taken as part of the major, chosen from an approved list of courses. For more information contact Professor James E. Brown, Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, 458 Moore Hall, (808) 956-4167.
Second Language Acquisition
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Department of Second Language Studies
Moore 570
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8610
Fax: (808) 956-2802
Web: www.lll.hawaii.edu/sls
Faculty
*C. Chaudron, PhD (Chair)-psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, second language reading and writing, classroom research, and research methods
*D. Ashworth, PhD-Japanese, second language acquisition and pedagogy, dialectology and sociolinguistics
*F. Bail, PhD-human learning and development, instructional formats
*A. Bayer, PhD-language and literacy in education
*J. Bilmes, PhD-discourse analysis, Thai sociolinguistics and pragmatics, conversational analysis
*R. Bley-Vroman, PhD-second language analysis, interlanguage syntax, formal models of second language acquisition
*J. D. Brown, PhD-second language testing, research methods, curriculum design
*H. Cook, PhD-Japanese sociolinguisitics, discourse analysis, language socialization and pragmatics
*G. Crookes, PhD-classroom teaching, classroom-centered research, materials and syllabus design, discourse analysis, methodology of science
*K. Davis, PhD-qualitative research, language policy and planning, literacy, bilingual education
*R. Day, PhD-second language pedagogy, learning and use, classroom research, discourse analysis, teacher training, pedagogical grammar
*D. Eades, PhD-ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, non-standard language varieties, especially in education, language, and law
*M. Forman, PhD-ethnographic linguistics, Philippine studies
*T. Hudson, PhD-language testing, reading, methods and materials, ESP, research methods
*R. Jacobs, PhD-English syntax, pedagogical grammar, structure of text, Amerindian and Pacific languages, linguistic theory, literature teaching
*S. Jacobs, EdD-teaching of writing to native and nonnative speakers of English, acquisition of literacy, text analysis
*K. Kanno, PhD-Japanese second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, language analysis
*G. Kasper, PhD-second language curriculum, discourse analysis, interlanguage pragmatics, qualitative second language research methods
*Y. C. Li, PhD-Chinese syntax and semantics, second language learning and testing
*M. Long, PhD-second-language learning, classroom research, second language research methods, methodology, materials
*R. Moody, PhD-Portuguese and Spanish, second language learning, applied linguistics
*W. O'Grady, PhD-syntax, language acquisition, Korean
*A. Peters, PhD-child first- and second-language acquisition, language socialization, biological foundations of language
*T. Ramos, PhD-Philippine linguistics, second language learning and teaching, child language acquisition, multilingualism, sociolinguistics
*K. Rehg, PhD-phonology, bilingual education, Micronesian linguistics
*H. Roitblat, PhD-cognition, comparative cognition
*R. Schmidt, PhD-second language learning, sociolinguistics and ESL, second language phonology, Arabic, Portuguese
*K. Wolfe-Quintero, PhD-interlanguage analysis, writing pedagogy
*S. Zhang, PhD-research methodology, design and statistics, computer applications, Chinese-English translation and interpretation
*Graduate Faculty
Degree Offered: PhD in second language acquisition
Academic Program
The PhD program in second language acquisition (SLA) is administered by the Department of Second Language Studies. The graduate faculty of the program is interdisciplinary-drawn not only from the SLS department but also from faculty in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Educational Psychology, English, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, Linguistics, and Psychology. The University also offers an MA in ESL (see the "Second Language Studies" section within the Colleges of Arts and Sciences for more information).
The courses in the program are organized into four areas of specialization:
1. Second Language Analysis-Structural analysis of learners' language development; comparison of native and nonnative languages; second-language varieties; differences arising from social and geographical contexts; phonological, grammatical, and discoursal properties; typological factors; putative universals.
2. Second Language Learning-Studies of the biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors in the language-learning process; the role of universals; interlanguages; the processes of comprehension and production.
3. Second Language Use-Studies of the social functions of second and foreign languages; pidgins, creoles, and dialect variation; roles of social and geographical contexts; pragmatics; discourse analysis; cross-cultural and inter-ethnic communication; sociopolitical factors.
4. Second Language Pedagogy-Research into language-learner needs (including immigrant needs); formulation of needs-based curriculum objectives and syllabi; computer-aided instruction; program administration; evaluation and language assessment.
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