Dr. John Norris

Dr. John M. Norris is a graduate faculty member in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. His research and teaching focus on program evaluation, assessment, and pedagogy in foreign language and adult education settings.

John has taught language and applied linguistics, and consulted on assessment and evaluation projects, in Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Spain, and across the U.S., and his research has appeared in journals such as Language Learning, Language Testing, Language Learning & Technology, Foreign Language Annals, The Modern Language Journal, and Die Unterrichtspraxis, as well as in a variety of book chapters.

His book publications include two co-authored volumes on language performance assessment from the University of Hawaii Press, a co-edited book entitled Synthesizing research on language learning and teaching with John Benjamins Press, and a single author book entitled Validity evaluation in language assessment with Peter Lang Publishers.

Currently, at the University of Hawaii, he is principal investigator for a three-year project (funded by the U.S. Department of Education) that seeks to help college foreign language educators engage in useful program evaluation practices.hncently as an assessment advisor to the University of Hawaii.

Yukiko Watanabe

Yukiko Watanabe is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she also received her MA and Advanced Graduate Certificate. Grounded in participatory and utilization-focused approaches to program evaluation, her work has ranged from evaluations in private high schools in Japan to the evaluation of the first conference of the Hawaii-Pacific Evaluation Association. She has also worked since 2005 on the Foreign Language Program Evaluation Project at UH. She has extensive experience in qualitative (focus groups and interviews) and quantitative data collection (especially surveys) and analysis.

John Davis

John Davis is a PhD student in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His general research interests are in foreign and second language pedagogy, language program evaluation, and issues of identity and SLA. John earned his MA in applied linguistics from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He has taught EFL in South Korea at the university-level as well as in corporate contexts, and has also taught ESL at the Hawaii English Language Program.

Castle Sinicrope

Castle Sinicrope is currently completing her MA in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her main research interests are the development of advanced L2 literacies and the role of cognition in SLA, and her applied interests include language program evaluation, assessment, and policy. In addition to her work for the Foreign Language Program Evaluation project, Castle has worked as a research assistant on the Syntactic Complexity project (with Dr. Lourdes Ortega) and taught adult ESL at the Hawaii English Language Program. In 2006, she earned her BA from Georgetown University, where she majored in German and minored in Italian. While at Georgetown, she worked extensively under Dr. Heidi Byrnes on the Developing Multiple Literacies project.

Marta González-Lloret

Marta González-Lloret is a full time instructor in the Spanish department and a PhD (A.B.D.) candidate at the department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her main interests and research are on Computer-assisted foreign language learning, task-based language teaching, and pedagogy in foreign language in general.

Marta has taught for twelve years at the University of Hawaii a variety of courses  including basic and advanced Spanish, grammar and composition, structure, phonetics, and courses in foreign language pedagogy and second language leaning.  For more information visit http://marta.lll.hawaii.edu

Hye Ri Joo

Hye Ri Joo is a PhD candidate (A.B.D.) in the department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Her research interests are linguistic aspects of second language acquisition, computer-assisted language learning, corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching, etc. Her research has been published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, and the NFLRC Technical Report series. She has taught various undergraduate courses in the department of Second Language Studies. She also has experience in developing Korean learning CD-ROMs and online courses. Her hobby is to create web pages.