Department of Linguistics

José Ignacio Hualde to be Honored with Festschrift in ASJU Journal

José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, has been honored with a two-volume festschrift, Hualderen omenaldia ("Hualde's Tribute"). The festschrift has been edited by Julen Manterola, Joseba Lakarra, and Gorka Elordieta and was published in the...

PhD Candidate Elizabeth King accepts Faculty Position at Asbury University

We are excited to announce that PhD candidate Elizabeth King accepted a faculty position in the School of Education at Asbury University, a liberal arts college in Kentucky. She will be an Assistant Professor of ESL teaching in their traditional undergraduate P-12 education major, MA program, and...

SOSY 6 Update and Call for Papers

The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond...

ILLS17 Update and Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17), which will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run...

Graduate Student Research Recap: Summer and Fall 2024

This Summer and Fall 2024, many graduate students from the UIUC Linguistics department presented their research at conferences near and far. Let’s take the time to congratulate each of them for their dedication to their work and their excellent representation of our department! At...

Martin Lehrer: Alumni Spotlight

During my first year in the program, I was admitted to a PhD program in Germany and offered a lecturer position. After a year of working and researching in Germany, I decided to return to UIUC to pursue my PhD in Curriculum & Instruction.

Uliana Ovsiannikova: Grad Student Spotlight

The university's diverse academic community ,which supports interdisciplinary professionals, makes it an ideal environment for aspiring language teachers and researchers. For instance, I am getting my Graduate Minor in Game Design along with my MATESL degree, which allowed me to work on several projects on educational games development.

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Featured Courses Fall 2024

Practical application, research, and theory of second language reading and writing

EIL 445

Learn the computational skills necessary to build, validate, and analyze corpora with the goal of exploring linguistic phenomena and testing linguistic theories.6

Ling 591

Hands-on learning experience to analyze an unfamiliar language and work to build a language archive

Ling 591

These advanced ESL courses for visiting scholars enhance professional writing and oral presentation skills in your chosen academic discipline.

ESL 592 and ESL 593