Friends,
A happy New Year and semester to everyone!
As much as we had hoped for a return to some semblance of ‘normal’, it seems that the Spring semester will be pretty much a repeat of Fall 2020. I know this places continued and perhaps new pressures on many of us who have already been impacted adversely by covid-19. So my heartfelt appreciation goes out to faculty, staff and students...
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Welcome to a new 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.
I work on a human data labeling/crowd computing platform in Google's Ads and Commerce organization. My team's job is to generate data that is used to train and evaluate automated systems. Primarily I work on: designing, executing, and delivering studies for ads & commerce engineering teams; designing tools and systems for others to use to collect human-labeled data; and developing best practices for human-labeled data collection.
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Department News
- Dr. Fred Davidson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium. The conference is scheduled to be held in Tunisia in June of 2021. His talk is entitled Describing the language construct...
- Dear friends, I would like to welcome you (back) to a new semester and academic year, which will surely be one to remember. I hope you are staying safe and well and that your summer has been rejuvenating and productive. We won’t be able to get together for our traditional welcome reception, but...
- Ryan Shosted, Professor of Linguistics, has worked extensively with the Maya community since arriving in Champaign in 2007, helping to raise awareness about their native language of Q’anjob’al in the C-U community. The Illinois Maya Initiative plans to connect researchers, community social service...
I often reflect on the knowledge I learned and the pedagogical guidance I received during my time in the MATESL program, and I realize that my degree from Illinois made it possible for me to be where I am today. My first teaching job at the Intensive English Institute -- when it was in a house on Nevada St. -- was the start of a very enjoyable, rewarding career.
