2026-03-16
- This Spring, the Linguistics Seminar Series included a poster session for current graduate students to highlight ongoing and recent research. Many of these researchers will also be presenting their work later this year at conferences both across the country and abroad. A current list of upcoming student...
2026-03-16 - UIUC's Elif Varlik (Linguistics PhD student) and Eda Yildirimer (MATESOL student) were featured in an interview with the TESOL International Association recently.The two discuss teaching and research through MATESOL's ESL practicum course, how they learned through community and alongside other teachers, as well as how those experiences shape their roles as language educators. You...
2026-03-04 - This past weekend, students and faculty from UIUC made a strong presence at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, hosted by the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA. This quadrennial two-day conference focused on heritage/ community language studies as a multi-disciplinary field. It...
2026-03-03 - University of Illinois faculty and graduate students made a strong showing at the 2026 Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages–Bilingual Education (ITBE) Annual Convention, where this year's theme was Equity, Access, and Innovation: Teaching Multilingual Learners in a Tech-Transformed Landscape. Members of the MATESOL/ESL and Linguistics community of...
2026-02-26 - The UIUC Arabic program was recently featured in an article by the Daily Illini! Check out this great feature highlighting our wonderful language program, our commitment to teaching a variety of dialects and the success of our impressive Arabic Debate Team!The link to the article can be found here:...
2026-02-26 - University of Illinois Admissions sat down with Kush Bhardwaj (CS+Linguistics Undergraduate) to discuss Computer Science+X, combination majors, and undergraduate research opportunities on campus. To learn more about the undergraduate program, Computer Science + Linguistics, and other opportunities, check out the interview below: Congratulations, Kush!
2026-02-25 - A new book coauthored by Tania Ionin and Linguistics PhD alumna Tatiana Luchkina, The Acquisition of Russian as a Second Language: A Research Overview, is releasing this month from Routledge. According to the publisher:This is the first comprehensive, systematic overview of research on the...
2026-02-19 - We are excited to announce that John Kotnarowski has received both the LAS award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Instructional Staff, and the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.The Provost’s Award for Excellence in...
2026-02-03 - We are excited to announce that UIUC's Randall Sadler partnered with Melinda Dooly of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as well as Müge Gündüz, Çiler Hatipoğlu, and Perihan Savas of Middle East Technical University in order to organize the International Conference on Technology-Infused Language Education (ICOTILE). This online event will take place April 17-18, 2026. From the...
2026-01-31 - As the new semester starts, we are excited to welcome back so many wonderful reading groups related to Linguistics!If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our Reading and Discussion Groups page. Spring 2026...
2026-01-26 - We are excited to announce that the second edition of Silvina Montrul’s El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante is being published this month by Wiley-Blackwell. The first edition of the volume was published in 2012 and has since been cited in hundreds of academic publications in linguistics and related fields. According to...
2026-01-20 - The Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting is the premier annual gathering of linguists and linguistics students from throughout the profession and around the world. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for linguists to share research, including the scholarship of teaching and learning in...
2026-01-19 - We are proud to announce that UIUC MATESOL student Eda Yildirimer was selected as the recipient of the AAAL 2026 Graduate Student Award (Duolingo Award).The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics....
2026-01-09 - We are excited to announce that UIUC's Jonathan Dunn has a new monograph entitled, Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations: Language as a Complex System, published by Cambridge University Press. This work is part of a series called Elements in Construction Grammar. Check out the summary below:This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic...
2026-01-07 - We are excited to announce that UIUC will host the 7th Sociolinguistics Symposium on April 4th, 2026. SOSY is a graduate-student run conference that offers a key forum for scholarly exchange across language-related fields. This year's theme is Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, and invitations for...