Aloha!

Aloha and welcome to my website! My name is Kristen Urada and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Task-based language teaching

Hawaiʻi Creole (Pidgin)

Linguistic landscapes

First co-authored book chapter published in 2022.

Recent Publications

Urada, K., Chen, L., Griffin, K., Nuesser, M., & Higgins, C. (2022). Finding Queen Emma at the International Market Place: The intercultural semiotics of commodified cultural heritage tourism. In B. Sharma & S. Gao (Eds.), Language and intercultural communication in tourism: Critical perspectives. Routledge.

Crowther, D., Holden, D., & Urada, K. (2022). Second language speech comprehensibility. Language Teaching55(4), 470-489. doi:10.1017/S0261444821000537

Crowther, D., & Urada, K. (2022). Face-to-face versus remote L2 speech elicitation: Listeners’ perceptions of sound clarity. Second Language Studies40(1), 19-37.

Urada, K., & Larkin, Rickey. (2022). Annotated summaries of Second Language Studies graduate work at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2021-2022. Second Language Studies40(1), 90-97.

Urada, K. (2022). Hawaiʻi TESOL Kupuna: An Interview with Dr. Richard Day. The Word31(3), 14-16.


Upcoming Conferences

No upcoming conferences at this time.

Recent presentations:

Urada, K. (2023). Humbalala! A case study of Hawaiʻi Creole variation on social media [Panel]. Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Virtual Winter Meeting, Online, January 12-13, 2023.

Higgins, C., Andrada, S., Urada, K., & Mizukami, M. (2023). Sociolinguistic style in face-to-face interactions vs. social media: Discourse functions of BRAH in Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole) [Panel]. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Virtual Winter Meeting. Online, January 12-13, 2023.

First place winner for the poster competition at SLRF 2019.

More to come!

PLACE HOLDER

Place holder.

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