Through almost 19 years of research at Illinois, Silvina Montrul, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics, and an affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has become a leader in understanding bilingualism and second language acquisition.
Professor Eyamba Bokamba retires after 44 yearsProfessor Eyamba Bokamba retires at the end of Spring 2018 after 44 years of distinguished service. His contributions were recognized in a reception jointly hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Center for African Studies on April 26, 2018.
Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) ConferenceCALICO is an annual international conference focused on computers and language learning. Hosted here by Linguistics from May 29th to June 2nd, 2018. www.calico.org
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- One of our students, Melanie Rohla, was recently awarded the 2018 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Swahili this summer.
- Our student John Rossi took this picture during his study abroad program in Morocco. It was displayed at the UIUC undergraduate exhibition.Thanks John for sharing this project with us!
- UIUC linguistics undergrad Shayne Chammavanijakul’s magazine Dill was recently written up in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/dining/food-magazines.html. Congratulations, Shayne!
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