golden anniversary
Title VI Celebrates 50 Years
On March 19-21, 2009, a national conference will be held in Washington, DC to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Title VI International Education programs, many of which have a huge impact here at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Title VI was originally authorized as Title VI of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 as a response to the launch of Sputnik and the U.S. government’s recognition that a stronger and broader capacity in foreign language and area studies was needed. It was later incorporated into the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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join us!
Come Watch Obama’s Inauguration
Live coverage of President Obama’s inauguration and other related events will be shown in Moore Hall 258 on January 20, 2009, starting at 7:00 am. Open to the public. Come watch history in the making!


Some New Faces in LLL
Mary Teresa Boyce (Assistant Professor of Maori)
Mary Boyce joins the UHM Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures as a tenure-track assistant professor of Maori language. Dr. Boyce is a fourth-generation Pakeha New Zealander, with links to Ngati Rakaipaaka, Rongomaiwahine, Ngati Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Rongowhakaata, and Ngati Porou, through her son, Kahurangi Poipoi. Mary’s research interests have focused on corpus analyses, and she competed her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington in 2006. She has taught Maori studies in the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) Maori Studies Department and has been senior lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at VUW. In 2001 Mary joined Huia NZ Limited, a privately owned Maori publishing company to assist with the design and compilation of the first ever monolingual dictionary of Maori, Tirohia Kimihia, a dictionary for 8-12 year olds in Maori-medium contexts. In 2007 Mary became Research Manager at Huia, and together with the research team worked on two major projects. One was a series of case studies of the productive Maori language of selected children (know as te Reo Whakaputa o te Tamaiti), and the other investigated the leveling of instructional readers in Maori. From July 2008 Mary has been involved with the Legal Maori Project, a major corpus compilation and analysis project with the view to producing a dictionary of Maori legal terms for Western legal concepts. She plans to maintain a relationship with Huia NZ Ltd and may work with them on future and ongoing corpus and dictionary projects.
Luca Onnis (Assistant Professor, Second Language Studies)
Dr. Onnis’ research program aims at building on theoretical and empirical advances made in the cognitive sciences and applying them to education practice with the goal of improving student learning of language. He has published in high-profile journals such as Cognitive Science, Developmental Science, Journal of Memory and Language, and Computational Linguistics. To support his research, Dr. Onnis has won highly competitive grants, including funds from the National Institutes of Health, the British Psychological Society, and the European Union.
Kiwoong Yang (Assistant Professor of Korean, Korean Flagship Program)
Professor Kiwoong Yang received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and a B.A. from Seoul National University. He has been a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hallym University, South Korea, as well as a visiting professor at UH Manoa and the University of Tokyo. He has also served as Director of the Korea Association of International Studies and the Korean Association of Contemporary Japanese Studies, and as an advisor to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His areas of expertise include language analysis in international relations, international relations in Northeast Asia (US, Korea, Japan), international political economy, and foreign policy and negotiations. He is currently preparing a book on Korean diplomacy and negotiations.

free printing privileges!
Volunteer Lab Monitors Needed
Although we have hired federal work study students to monitor our computer labs, we still need volunteer monitors. Sometimes we have time slots that students can't fill, and we also need a pool of substitutes. Volunteers receive free printing privileges for the semester. If you would like to volunteer as a lab monitor on a regular or occasional basis, please e-mail Dan Tom.

answers to all your questions
LLC Multimedia Computer Lab Resources
Upgrade your teaching skills
Each semester LLL faculty and staff offer to share their pedagogical and technological expertise with you in the form of free lectures, demonstrations, and workshops. Check out this semester's schedule.

Satellite programming
We subscribe to two channels via satellite, TV5 (French) and CCTV4 (Mandarin). You may view programming in the viewing room, MH156, or in Moore Hall departmental lounges. Although we subscribe to two channels, we can only view one of them at a time. Please contact Dan Tom to request that he show a channel at a particular time.

Videos and DVDs on reserve
Faculty may place videos or DVDs for their courses on reserve for viewing in our viewing room. We have two zone-free DVD players in the viewing room so instructors may now place any zone DVD on reserve. Videos/DVDs are put on reserve on a shelf in the Mac Lab (MH 153B) and are checked out from the Mac Lab monitor. Students need to present a valid UH ID card and sign a log sheet to borrow a video. Their ID cards are kept until they return the video/DVD. The videos/DVDs must be viewed in the viewing room (MH 156). There is no overnight checkout. To place a video/DVD on reserve, please bring it to our office in MH 256 first so we may give it a code number.

Language teaching videos/DVDs available for faculty checkout
A collection of videos and DVDs that the NFLRC publishes is available for faculty checkout in Moore 256. Materials include both tools for learning specific languages and lectures and demonstrations covering general teaching and acquisition topics. See what's available.

New portable digital H2 audio recorder available for checkout
We now have two very versatile portable digital H2 audio recorders for checkout. More details and a video clip are available on our website. Please contact Nancy Arakawa for one-on-one training on how to use the H2.

Equipment check-out
We have AV carts equipped with VCRs, DVD players and monitors; tape recorders; CD players; Mini-DV camcorders; VHS camcorders; LCD projectors; wireless mics; digital cameras and tripods for checkout. Some of the AV carts also have multi-system VCRs that play PAL and SECAM videos and all have multi-zone DVD players. To reserve, please come to MH 256 and fill out a request form.

Media classrooms and class lab
We have three media classrooms (Moore 155A, 258, 259) and one class lab (Moore 257) available for reservation.  Reserve a media classroom or lab.
 

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