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.
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The 2018 SILMW-Arabic High School ProgramFor the third year in a row and part of the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW), 15 high school students participated in an intensive immersion, two-week long Arabic course. This program was supported by the Linguistics Department and Qatar Foundation International (QFI).
2018 KNU-UIUC Glocal Summer SchoolThe Ling Dept and Kyungpook National U (Daegu, S. Korea) partnered to host the 4-week 'Glocal' Program focusing on training future Korean teachers to become familiar with U.S. education , culture, improve English skills, and examine multicultural education. The program was led by Dr. Hyun-Sook Kang (UIUC) and the Kyungpook delegation was accompanied by Dr. Donghee Om.
2018 Sookmyung Women's University Summer ProgramStudents from the Dept of Korean Language and Literature at Sookmyung Women's University (Seoul, Korea) come for a week-long workshop to learn aspects of American academia, culture, Korean language program administration, and topics in applied and general linguistics.
The language of emojiBen Weissman and Darren Tanner's work on how our brains process sarcastic emoji's.
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
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.
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More Department News
- The slides from the 8/22/18 orientation for new MA/PhD students in Linguistics are available here.
- Ben and Darren's paper on sarcasm and emoji's that has received media attention is now published. See https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/690952 for UofI News Bureau coverage of article.
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