CALL LATELY / Second Language Studies

Four SLS PhD students won a prize package of more than $34,000.

A startup company helping people learn different languages is the winner of the 2022 University of Hawaiʻi Venture Competition (UHVC). GOALL (Great Online Activities for Language Learning) is led by Ann Choe, Kristen Urada, Yang Liu and Susanne DeVore, PhD students in CALL’s Department of Second Language Studies. GOALL provides a web and mobile app to help adult language learners achieve their goals through customizable and research-grounded task-based activities. Its prize package includes $10,000 from title sponsors Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) and Hawaiian Electric, and more than $24,000 in in-kind prizes. READ MORE