Thom Hudson at Hawai'i

               

Thom Hudson
Professor and Graduate Chair

Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI. 96822
Phone: (808)956-2795
Fax: (808)956-2802
mailto:tdh@hawaii.edu

         Thom Hudson, Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and co-editor of the electronic journal Reading in a Foreign Language, received his BS degree in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and his MA degree in TESOL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been on the SLS faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa since 1989.

           Prior to coming to Hawai'i, Thom taught three years in Cairo, Egypt, numerous years in the U.S., two years in Guadalajara, Mexico, and since coming to Hawai'i he has spent a sabbatical year teaching in Japan. He was the Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Hawai'i for three years. He was also Co-Principal Investigator of a grant entitled "Expanding English Language Capacity in Vietnam". He is currently the Graduate Chair of the Department of Second Language Studies.

           His research has concentrated on second language reading, second language testing, English for Specific Purposes, and Program development. He has had a long term interest in criterion-referenced testing in particular. He is also currently interested in computer and web-based testing. His research has appeared in the journals Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly, Language Testing, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and Language and Communication. He is author of the text Reading in a Second Language, published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. He has co-authored Developing Prototypic Measures of Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, with E. Detmer & J.D. Brown, Designing Second Language Performance Assessments, with J. Norris, JD Brown, and J. Yoshioka, and An Investigation of Second Language Task-Based Performance Assessments, with JD Brown, J. Norris, and W. Bonk, and Criterion-Referenced Language Testing, with JD Brown. Additionally, he co-edited A Focus on Language Test Development with JD Brown. He also has chapters in several books.

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