This year's Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - Bilingual Education (ITBE) Annual Convention was attended by at least 16 faculty members and graduate students (the majority of whom are instructors in the Illinois ESL Program) from our department!
The ITBE Annual Convention is hosted by Illinois TESOL-BE, a non-profit organization that connects educators, researchers,...
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Arabic High School program featured in LAS News
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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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We have an incredibly diverse department. I have taken many classes that are both associated with my research and outside of my direct research interests. In my opinion, this has made me a more well-rounded linguist, and strengthened my research skills in many ways.
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Department News
- Ping-Lin Chuang, graduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award, for her dissertation titled “What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating...
- Mabrook (Congratulations!) to Dr. Eman Saadah and the UIUC Arabic Debate team who competed in last week's Arabic Debate at Stanford University! Team member Suad Al Jawhari received first place at the national level for the AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) category, and...
- Dr. Randall Sadler, Associate Professor of Linguistics, and Dr. Tricia Thrasher, who recently graduated with her PhD in French, are the recipients of a gift valued at $300,000 via Meta Platform Technologies (formerly known as Facebook) and Immerse (a company that has created a VR platform for...
The MATESL and Linguistics/SLATE programs provided me with theoretical and practical knowledge that could easily be applied to the real world. Diverse teaching and researching opportunities I had under the guidance of amazing mentors have been invaluable (e.g., teaching ESL writing, administering the EPT), and these helped me grow professionally.
