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
- We are pleased to announce that Professor Tania Ionin has been selected to receive the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar award for three years, starting Fall 2021. Congratulations, Tania!
- The 51st Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) will take place virtually between April 29th-May 1st. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by: José Ignacio Hualde...
- Dr. Yan Tang was chosen as a Humanities Released Time award recipient for his research topic: "The impact of background noise on listening comprehension: Implications for English language teaching, learning, and assessment". Congratulations, Dr. Yan Tang!
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.
