The Department of Linguistics will be holding a virtual event to celebrate student award winners and graduates on May 11, 4-5pm. Please join us in congratulating the award recipients below for their accomplishments during the 2020-2021 academic year:
MATESL / ESL awards:
Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence: Alice Houston
Mary A. Hussey Award for Excellence...
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Welcome to the Spring 2021 semester, Linguistics students!
SILMW Students Enjoyed Virtual Cooking Class
Hittite class combines 21st-century and Bronze Age technologyHittite class, taught by Professor Ryan Shosted, offers students with opportunities to engage with an extinct language using both modern technology and ancient methods of pressing cuneiform symbols into clay.
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Better understand your worldLinguistics captures how we perceive the world around us and how we relate to one another.
Illinois provides a professional working and learning environment, where faculty members, staff, and students are eager to assist others. The linguistics departments holds regular seminars, talks, and workshops providing tools and opportunities to be inspired by others’ research and perceive linguistics and research in a linguistically rich environment.
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Department News
- The LAS Impact Awards were created to honor those who’ve gone beyond expectations to help others during this incredibly difficult chapter in our history. Recipients were nominated by their peers and selected by an LAS committee. The winners' names and a brief summary of their contributions are...
- The 4th Conference of Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-4), hosted by Indiana University, will take place virtually between April 9th-11th. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by: Aylin Coskun...
- Congratulations to Professor Krystal Smalls for being selected as the winner of the prize for best faculty research with her entry "Race, Signs, and the Body: Toward a Theory of Racial Semiotics".
In addition to working on updating and improving the curricula of the Arabic program, I am actively pursuing several projects that focus on teacher development. More recently, I am preparing my students to participate in national competition QatarDebate. I am working with a team of students from advanced Arabic language classes for this upcoming debating event. This championship will take place at Harvard University by the end of October.
