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The 24th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was held online on Saturday, April 18th, 2020. This annual conference provides an opportunity for students to become socialized into academic practices, such as presenting at a conference and producing a paper for publication in these proceedings. It also allows graduate students to take on various roles in the academic community, as conference chairs, proceedings editors, coordinators, and volunteers. This year's conference did not have a specific theme to attest that one theme could not be enough to define the diverse, creative, and intellectual work that the students had done. Following a preface (Victoria Lee, Denis Melik Tangiyev, & Chau Truong) and plenary highlights (Atsushi Hasegawa), papers in these proceedings include: Homeless or Houseless: Terminology Changes for Home Owner Agency (Jenniefer Corpuz); Positing a Hybrid Exemplar Model for L2 Intonation (Bonnie J. Fox); A Look at Prosody in Nasal (Jacob Hakim); Flying in English (Michaela Nuesser); Subtitled Videos as a Learning Tool in an L2 Classroom (Lucia Camardiel Sardiña); An Interactive Analysis on Indirect Conversational Closing Strategies in Chinese (Yunhe Sun); and Emerging Phenomena on Epistemic Marker - "Ketun" in Korean Conversations (Boeui Woo). [Cover title varies: "2020 Proceedings: Selected papers from the 24th Annual Graduate Student Conference, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature." For the 2019 proceedings, see ED612291.]

The 23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was held on Saturday, April 20th, 2019. As in past years, this conference offered the students in the six departments across the college, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, Linguistics, and Second Language Studies, the opportunity to come together and build a stronger community across the college by sharing their work with one another. This annual conference provides an opportunity for students to become socialized into academic practices, such as presenting at a conference and producing a paper for publication in these proceedings. It also allows students to take on various roles in the academic community, as the conference chairs, proceedings editors, coordinators, and volunteers for the conference are graduate students predominantly. As the twenty-third iteration of this conference, it was the perfect opportunity to celebrate all the outstanding achievements of LLL graduate students. This year's conference theme, "Storytelling: The Art of Translation" well attests to the importance of all the creative and intellectual work done and the stories told through languages, literature, media, and more in the college. [Cover title varies: "Storytelling: The Art of Translation. 2019 Proceedings. 23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature." For the 2018 proceedings, see ED598972.]

The 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was held on Saturday, April 7th, 2018. As in past years, this conference offered the students in the six departments across the college, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, Linguistics, and Second Language Studies, the opportunity to come together and build a stronger community across the college by sharing their work with one another. This annual conference provides an opportunity for students to become socialized into academic practices, such as presenting at a conference and producing a paper for publication in these proceedings. It also allows students to take on various roles in the academic community, as all conference chairs, proceedings editors, coordinators, and volunteers for the conference are themselves graduate students. As the twenty-second iteration of this conference, it was the perfect opportunity to celebrate all the outstanding achievements of LLL graduate students. This year's conference theme, "L[superscript 4] : Languages, Linguistics & Literature for Life," well attests to the importance of all the creative and intellectual work done at the University of Hawai'i that contributes toward lifelong learning and enrichment. Following a preface (Mitsuko Suzuki) and plenary highlights (Gary Holton), papers in these proceedings include: (1) Taking a Knee: Colin Kaepernick's Pursuit of Stasis (Justin Clapp); (2) The Significance of Queer Specificity in Kim Sa-Ryang's "Into the Light" (1939) (Yijun Ding); (3) Learner Self-Evaluation for Developing English Communicative Competence: A Pilot Study (Hoa T. V. Le); (4) Yamben: A Previously Undocumented Language of Papua New Guinea (Andrew Pick); and (5) Examining the Validity of Conversation Tasks in the AP Japanese Exam: A Discourse Analytic Perspective (Nana Suzumura). [Cover title varies: "L[superscript 4]: Languages, Linguistics & Literature for Life. 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature. 2018 Proceedings."]

This year's conference theme, "Be Seen, Be Heard," reflected not only our goal of celebrating our achievements but also represented our intent of making sure everyone's voices are heard, especially during 2017's difficult political climate. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Laura E. Lyons, followed by an inspirational keynote by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, a PhD candidate in English at UH Manoa, widely published poet and professional performer. A special addition to this year's program were talks delivered by five featured speakers: Dr. Christina Bacchilega, Dr. Mary Shin Kim, PhD candidate Victoria Chen, PhD candidate Gavin Lamb and PhD candidate Michael Pak. Throughout the day, there were 36 graduate student presentations. Contents of these proceedings include: (1) What Can We Say about the Languages of Ancient Europe? (A. Douglas Callender); (2) An Evolving Mainstream: A Linguistic Landscapes Analysis of Migration in Cary, NC (Lucas John Edmond); (3) Reduplication in Oroha: The Multifaceted Process and its Effects within the Language's Grammar (Darren Flavelle); (4) Novel Morphophonological Derivational Patterns in Korean Onomatopoeic and Mimetic Neologisms (Bonnie Fox); (5) 'Give' in Sasak: Voice and Alignment in Ditransitive Constructions (Ryan E. Henke); (6) The Possibilities of Detaching '-E Hata' from Korean Psych Adjectives (Dianne Juhn); (7) Conversation Between Sasak Speakers in Cultural Context (Khairunnisa); (8) "Good Job!" Language Focus and Instruction in a Research Interview (Yu-Han Lin); (9) An Exploration Of Tonogenesis In Oceania (Leah Pappas); (10) From TBLT to PBLL: An Ecological Perspective (Huy V. Phùng); (11) Examining Effects of Revitalization on Pronunciation of Southern Tutchone Ejectives (Ashleigh Smith); (12) Intransitive Sentences with Floating Quantifiers in Child Japanese (Maho Takahashi); (13) Stance And Engagement Features in Academic Writing in Korean: A Corpus-Based Comparison (Lee Seunghye Yu); and (14) An Ecological Approach to an Online Second Language Writing Course (Lin Zhou). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2016 proceedings, see ED586378.]

The theme for this year's annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature (LLL) was "In a Word," which captured a basic component that runs through the College of LLL since words are essential to the work students do in each of the departments that form the College. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Jeffrey Carroll, which was followed by a poignant and provocative keynote from LLL's own Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui. Presentations followed from a group of 20 graduate students, who shared their research with approximately 80 attendees from the UH community. Following a preface from the editors and plenary highlights from Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui, contents of these proceedings include: (1) Critical Reading in an ESL Classroom (Jessica Fast); (2) Cross-Curricular Critical Pedagogy in a Multilingual Multicultural Classroom (Samuel Aguirre); (3) Interactional Functions of Demonstratives in Korean and Japanese Conversation (Ok-sim Kim); (4) Living Mo'olelo for Young Adults: Story, Language, and Form in "Of No Real Account" (Caryn Kunz Lesuma); (5) The Syntactic Position of the Japanese SFP "NE" and Its Implications for the Japanese Clausal Structure (Ryan Hughes); (6) The Function of Language Alternation in Mandarin Tutoring Sessions (Ding Wang); (7) An Analysis of Subjectivity and the Color Line in Nella Larsen's "Passing" (Janet J. Graham); (8) Brave New Worlds: A Reparative Reading of (Post)Colonial "Tempests" (Chase Wiggins); and (9) Generalizing and Epistemic Authority: Online Anonymous Advice Giving in Japanese (Olivia Cassetta). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2014 Proceedings, see ED573745.]

The theme for this year's annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature (LLL) was "Celebrating Voices -- past - present - future." It reflected not only our goal of celebrating achievements of LLL graduate students, but also our intent of making this the biggest conference yet. The conference opened with an address from Dean Jeffrey Carroll, which was followed by an inspirational keynote by Dr. Samrat Upadhyay. Presentations followed from a group of 35 graduate students, who shared their research with approximately 136 attendees from the UH community. Following a preface from the editors and plenary highlights from Dr. Samrat Upadhyay, contents of these proceedings include: (1) Breaking Ground: Obviation As a Key Target for Assessing the Acquisition of Saulteaux, a Dialect of Ojibwe (Ryan E. Henke); (2) Place-Based Language Learning Using Mobile Technology: Redesigning a Mall Game for Help (Daniel Holden and Yang Liu); (3) The Very Real Effects of an Illusionary Circuit System: Using Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" to Contemplate Black Existence Within White Supremacy (Brittney Frantece); (4) "I See Us All": Pursuing Radical Humanism in Transnational Coalitions (Sam Ikehara); (5) Settler Colonialism and New Age Commercialization of False Indigenous Knowledge (Lauren K. K. Nishimura); (6) The Case of Og: Focusing Arguments in Western Subanon (Colleen O'Brien); (7) Event Structure Metaphor: Mapping from the Chinese Classifier 'Chang' (Reed Riggs); (8) Voice and Ergativity in Roviana (Peter Schuelke); (9) Prosody, Gender and the Japanese Interactional Particle "Ne" (Antonio Vega); (10) The Development and Grammaticalization of the Preposition [Chinese character] in Chinese (Jing Zhou). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2015 Proceedings, see ED573728.]

The theme for this year's annual graduate student conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL) was "Your Voice, My Voice: Literature, Language, Culture and Society." Translation and interpretation guided the theme for the conference, with Dr. Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier of the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language providing the plenary on history of Hawaiian language translation and interpretation. Following a preface by the editors and plenary highlights from Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier, these proceedings include the following papers: (1) Lahui and Family in the Nation-Building Projects of "Written in the Sky" and "Little House on the Prairie" (Kelsey Amos); (2) Okamoto Kanoko and Exemplary Motherhood: Contemporary Readings of "Boshi Jojo" (Francesca Balquin Pizarro); (3) What a Literary Collage Tells Us: Hemingway's "In Our Time" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (Madoka Nagado); (4) Desire in Love Stories of "Sanyan" (Di Sun); (5) The Voice of Resistance: The Struggle against Transculturation in the Poems of Carlo Fraticelli, Jamaica Osorio, and Ittai Wong (Ryan Swanson); (6) The Affective Effects of Comprehension Questions after Extensive Reading (Hyunjung An); (7) Proposal for the Transcription of Cetacean Communication (Brenda Clark); (8) Differences in Co-Construction in Japanese between a Father and a Mother (Vera Hanaoka); (9) Japanese-Speaking Children's "WA/GA" Distinction for Subject Ellipsis Resolution in Complex Sentences (Keiko Hata); (10) The Effectiveness of Pronunciation Instruction on ESL Learners (Akiko Kahue-Burrows); (11) Media Influence on Preschool Girls' Use of Women's Language (Nobuo Kubota); (12) Evaluating the Classification of the Chimbu-Wahgi Subgrouping (Samantha Rarrick); (13) Acquisition of "Ni" in L1 Japanese Children (Mihoko Sawada); (14) Teachers' Use of the Non-Lexical Token "Hee": Pedagogical Functions and Extended Conversational Opportunities (Megumi Tsuchida); (15) Historical Change in the French Sign Language Family (Brittany Wilson); (16) Working Memory Capacity and the Acquisition of Phrasal Verb (Fred Zenker, Hyunjung An, and Hyunjung Jung); (17) 'A 'Ohe Pau Ka 'Ike I Ka Halau Ho'Okahi: All Knowledge Is Not Learned in Just One School: The Gathering of Hula That Accommodates Both Cultural Preservation and Tourism (Rolando Espanto); (18) Needs Analysis for Home Care Worker Training (Kendi Ho); (19) Magic, Business, and Comedy: The Representation of the Chinese in the 18th-Century French Theater (Eve Millett); and (20) Language Access and the Professionalization of Community Interpreting in Hawai'i (Andrew Rouse). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2013 Proceedings, see ED573744 .]

The theme for this year's College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was "Engaged Language Research and Practice," with the plenary speech given by Dr. Kathryn A. Davis. Following a preface from the editors and plenary speaker highlights, contents of these proceedings include: Section I: Language and Society: (1) Unproportional: Disparities of Funding and Endangerment in Languages and Species (Shaun Kindred); (2) It Takes a Hurricane: The Renaissance of the French Language in Post-Katrina Louisiana (Eve Millet); (3) Considerations for the Recognition of Berber Languages in Algeria (Colleen Patton) (4) Language Policy and the Revitalization of Native American Languages (Samantha Rarrick); Section II: Language, Identity, and Attitudes: (5) Second Language Learning, Identity, and a Sense of Belonging (Yuzuko Nagashima); (6) "Oh Yu It Kimchi? Okei Den.": Code-Switching, Code-Mixing, and Identity in Local Korean Discourse (Jenna Pak); and (7) A Preliminary Look at Education and Language Attitudes in Timor-Leste (Melody Ann Ross). Section III: Language Pedagogy: (8) Consciousness-Raising through In-Service Teacher Professional Development (Jennifer Holdway); (9) Carpe Diem: Seizing Moments of Critical Pedagogy in a Church-Based ESL Program (Priscila Leal); (10) Literary Exclusions among Generation 1927: Aren't Women Citizens Too? (Blanca E. Pruitt); and (11) Building Autonomy in an L2 Reading Course: A Report on Aspects of a Curriculum Development Project (Gordon West). Section IV: Technology: (12) Participant Recruitment Using Amazon Mechanical Turk (Ryan Peters). Section V: Linguistics: (13) Korean Nominalizers -(U)M and -KI (Yoo Hwa Choi); (14) Automatic Word Recognition in L2 Reading: A Comparison between a High and Low Reading Comprehension Group (Takafumi Fukushima); (15) Linguistic Transfer of English Definite Article and Japanese Medial Demonstrative (Megumi Jinushi); (16) Use of Gendered Languages among Preschool Male Children (Nobuo Kubota); (17) Semantics of COM (Hye Seung Lee); (18) Study on Korean Consonant Phonemes in the Syllable-Final Position in Korean Drama (Sumire Matsuyama); (19) Co-Construction in Female Conversations in Japanese (Maximilian Shakely); (20) Preliminary Results: Phonetic Variation and Perceived Localness in Hawai'i (Sean S. Simpson); (21) A Preliminary Investigation of Cross Language Priming (Claire Stabile); and (22) Korean L2 Vocabulary Acquisitions: Multimedia Learning and Word Writing (Jason Bumyong Sung). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2012 proceedings, see ED573735.]

The theme of this year's conference was "Check Your Vision for the Future" with papers highlighting emerging changes in language use and literature, as well as suggestions for improving language teaching and maintenance in the future. The plenary speech was given by Dr. Katie Drager, followed by student presentations. Following a preface from the editors and plenary speaker highlights from Britney Carey, contents of these proceedings include nine presentations: (1) Let's Talk EFL and ESL Textbook Story: Looking Back and Moving Forward (Cheryl DiCello); (2) Chuck Norris Jokes: Manifestations of Gender Stereotypes in American Society (Kate Hardeman); (3) An Acoustic Study of the Neutral Tone in Taiwan Mandarin (Karen Huang); (4) "Masculine" "No": Japanese Men's Use of Sentence-Final Particle "No" (Kristyn Martin); (5) Language Shift: A Case Study of a Family Spanning "3.5 Generations" (Monica Vidal); (6) From Consumption to Community in the Beginning Writing Classroom (Amanda Adams-Handy); (7) Light and Darkness in "The Time Machine" (Madoka Nagado); (8) The Post-Postmodern? A Millennial Sensibility in Ethnic American Fictions (Nicole Myoshi Rabin); and (9) The Role of Motivation in Performing as a Writer in Liminal Spaces (Melinda Smith). Individual papers contain references.

The theme for this year's College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was "Language and Community," bringing together graduate students and faculty members from the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL), Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures (IPLL), Languages and Literatures of Europe and Americas (LLEA), Linguistics (LING), and Second Language Studies (SLS). Following a preface and plenary highlights from the editors, contents of these proceedings include: (1) Language Access to Public Services: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Language Policy and Policy Implementation (Jennifer Holdway); (2) The Importance of Language in the Development of Cultural Citizenship (Eve Millett); (3) Narrative Agency and Narrative Complicity; Metafiction in Interactive Narratives (Christopher Smith); (4) Development of an ESP Program for a Micronesian Population in Hawai'i (Matthew Barbee, Juan Escalona, and Jennifer Holdway); (5) Beyond Comprehension: Observing Patterns of Learner Reaction to Written Texts (Sean Forté); (6) Praises and Critiques in L2 Socialization of Japanese Language Learners (Stephen Moody); (7) Korean Mass/Count Noun Distinction (Hyeyeon Kim); (8) Korean Subsyllabic Representation of Adults and Children: Focusing on a Short Term Memory Test (Jonny Kim); and (9) Phonemic Distinction Loss in Monolingual vs Bilingual Infants (Jessica Seid). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2011 proceedings, see ED573729.]