The Department of Linguistics had their Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration on May 5th, 2023.
It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success!
Awards
Departmental Awards: Linguistics and Less Commonly Taught Languages
Henry R. Kahane Award for Outstanding TA in...
Advanced Academic Writing for International Graduate StudentsThe English as a Second Language (ESL) Program is offering ESL 592 Advanced Academic Writing this Summer (June - August 2023)! This course for international graduate students focuses on developing the skills to derive field-specific models for writing research articles, theses, and dissertations. Register now!
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.
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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
I am working on several collaborative projects with faculty members and students at UIUC. I recently started a 5-year project funded by the Illinois State Board of Education, along with 4 other PIs at UIUC, to develop a training and certification program for qualified interpreters, to facilitate non-English speaking parents during individualized education program (IEP) meetings in the K-12 schools within the State of Illinois. In this cross-disciplinary project, I am leading the development, administration, and validation of proficiency tests that will be used to screen, certify, and diagnose...
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Department News
- Joshua Dees, PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, and Katie VanDyne, PhD student in Spanish Linguistics, have just presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 59)! CLS, hosted at the...
- Researchers at the University of Illinois have partnered with Immerse, a virtual reality language learning platform, and Meta—formerly Facebook, Inc.—to provide underserved high school students with headsets to...
- Maxine Katz, master’s student in the Department of Religion, has been enrolled in Elementary Hindi (HNDI 201) since Fall 2022. HNDI 201 is part of a comprehensive range of courses for studying Hindi, offered in the Department of Linguistics under the instructorship of Dr. Mithilesh Mishra. Maxine...
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...
