We are excited to announce that Dr. Silvina Montrul has been recognized with a Marjorie Roberts Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences! This professorship was granted based upon her excellent record of scholarship, contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and contributions to public engagement.
In particular, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognizes Silvina for being a...
Welcoming the OEAI Test to the Linguistics DepartmentThe Linguistics Department is excited to welcome the OEAI test and our new OEAI coordinator, Dr. Qiusi Zhang
ILLS15 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism”– a triumphant success!The Linguistics graduate students at U of I just hosted the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society!
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.
Spotlight StoriesVisit our Spotlight Stories to find out more about what faculty, alumni, and students are working on
Better understand your worldLinguistics captures how we perceive the world around us and how we relate to one another.
So many choicesOver 30 courses offered every semester
Studying linguistics at Illinois has helped me to grow immensely as a scholar. The department places a strong emphasis on research and the faculty works tirelessly to help students develop and hone their research skills.
Calendar
Department News
- Congratulations to Dr. Silvina Montrul, who was recently featured in the article "The Parents Trying to Pass Down a Language They Hardly Speak" in The Atlantic magazine! This article describes the perspectives of heritage speakers in the United States and features quotes from a phone...
- We are thrilled to announce that Katherine Kwak, a second-year PhD student, received external funding from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. With the Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award ($1,000), Katherine plans to build an experiment for her qualifying paper and collect data at the...
- This year marks the start of the first fall semester with the Linguistics Department hosting the Oral English Assessment Interview (OEAI). This interview-based assessment - formerly the English Proficiency Interview (EPI) hosted by CITL - serves as an on-campus opportunity for international...
I received an HRI (Humanities Research Institute) summer grant of $3,000 for my in-progress ethnography of a French dual immersion program in Urbana-Champaign. I will be tracking the language acquisition outcomes and motivation/investment to learn French among different students who speak French as a second or a heritage language. In summer 2023, I will be using the grant towards interpreter and participant compensation as I interview a representative sample of 30 families who send their children to the school's English-French dual immersion program from Congolese, Moroccan, Algerian, African...
