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Read article: UIUC Students and Faculty Shine at ITBE Conference
UIUC Students and Faculty Shine at ITBE Conference
This year, the 50th annual Illinois TESOL-Bilingual Education (ITBE) conference took place with the theme "Innovate to Educate: New Horizons in Language Teaching." Many students, faculty, and alumni from UIUC's Linguistics, MATESOL, and ESL programs played a role in the conference. UIUC's own...
Read article: Save the Date for Linguistics Workshop on Korean Nominals
Save the Date for Linguistics Workshop on Korean Nominals
We are excited to announce that UIUC will host Nominals and Nominalizations in Korean and Beyond - a workshop addressing a variety of currently debated issues in morphology, syntax, and semantics-pragmatics. This two-day event will take place May 9–10, 2025....
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Read article: Eman Saadah awarded Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Eman Saadah awarded Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah, who has not only been selected for LAS Dean’s Award in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but also for the campus level award: the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!...
Read article: Register Now for ILLS 17
Register Now for ILLS 17
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17) will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced...
Read article: Register now for SOSY 2025!
Register now for SOSY 2025!
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...
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Walther

Walther Glödstaf: Grad Student Spotlight

My current research focuses on understanding the psycholinguistic foundations of L1-attrition and modeling it in communities via agent-based simulations, to understand the importance of variation within and across speaker groups. I have also done research on Finnish syntax and economical and political analyses of European minority language protection policy, and the sociolinguistics of online study abroad communities.

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Jennifer Zhang

Dr. Jennifer Zhang: Alumni Spotlight

One of the most important skills I developed is essentially project management. With the research goal in mind and the time/budget/resources constraints: What can reasonably be accomplished, and how can I make sure that it happens? This training helped me define my projects and prioritize tasks more effectively.

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Featured Courses Fall 2024

EIL 445 Card

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

EIL 445

LING 413 Card

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

LING 403 Card

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

Ling 591

ESL 592 and ESL 593

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

ESL 592 and ESL 593