David Hiple
e-mail: dhiple@hawaii.edu
Director, Language Learning Center
Associate Director, National Foreign Language Resource Center
Education
- B.A. International Relations, George Washington University
- Ed.M. Urban Education/English as a Second Language, Rutgers University
- Ed.D. Adult Education, Rutgers University
Background
Grew up in the Midwest and New England. High school exchange student in Costa Rica as a teenager. Returned to Costa Rica after completing undergraduate work and began teaching. Based in New York for fifteen years before coming to Hawai‘i in 1991. Fulbright in Yugoslavia '87-'88. Have conducted teacher development activities for Peace Corps, School for International Training, Department of State, and other organizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Pacific.
Interests
- materials development for less commonly taught languages
- distance education/distributed learning
- oral proficiency testing
- teacher development