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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.

Research Interests
Task-based language teaching
Hawaiʻi Creole (Pidgin)
Linguistic landscapes

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 Teaching. 55(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 Studies, 40(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 Studies, 40(1), 90-97.
Urada, K. (2022). Hawaiʻi TESOL Kupuna: An Interview with Dr. Richard Day. The Word, 31(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.

More to come!
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