On-line Cafés for Heritage Learners of
Filipino, Japanese, Samoan, and Chinese
June 17—21, 2008 • University of Hawai`i

The virtual equivalent of the neighborhood coffee house, the on-line café is a place for people to gather for conversation and social interaction. The UH NFLRC has been developing a prototype on-line café for language learning for several years. This distance education project will enable heritage students of Filipino, Japanese, and Samoan, and learners of business Chinese, to come together on line with students having similar profiles at distant locations.

Second Language Research Forum
October 17—19, 2008 • University of Hawai`i

With the theme, Exploring SLA: Perspectives, Positions, and Practices, SLRF returns to UH Manoa for the third time to investigate various professional interests and practices of the field of second language acquisition.

1st International Conference on
Language Documentation and Conservation
March 17—19, 2009 • University of Hawai`i

Collaboration in language documentation is the focus of this conference which includes sessions on interdisciplinary topics aimed at linguists. It has been a decade since Himmelmann’s article on language documentation appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as by academics. During this conference, we aim to assess what has been achieved in the past decade and what the practice of language documentation within linguistics has been and can be.