2022-11-07 -   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 the UIUC team was ranked # 2 nationally in the same...

2022-10-25 - 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 teaching languages).  Their project, Immersive technologies for language learning in underserved...

2022-10-21 - View original article here by QNA Doha, October 18 (QNA) - Qatar Debate, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, in collaboration with the Abbasi Center for Islamic Studies at Stanford University, concluded the third edition of the U.S Universities Arabic Debating Championship, with the...

2022-10-21 - View original article here When summer arrives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and undergraduates go back to their hometowns, a perfect opportunity arises for other, much younger students to take part in the college experience in a way that reaches beyond a typical campus tour. High school...

2022-10-14 - Ben Evanoff, undergraduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected to receive the Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award from NCSA for outstanding interdisciplinary contributions to the SPIN project titled Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers. This award recognizes undergraduate students whose research at...

2022-08-12 - The Department of Linguistics welcome new students in the week of August 15-19, 2022!

2022-08-12 - Krystal Smalls, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, has won the LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Assistant Professors) Award for Academic Years 2022-24. The LEAP Award is granted to distinguished early-career faculty at the University of Illinois who demonstrate the highest caliber of academic achievement, scholarly productivity and outstanding contribution to the College of LAS. Winners...

2022-08-12 - Associate Professor Xun Yan has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar, beginning in Fall 2022. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes outstanding contributions by mid-career faculties in the College of LAS, and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years.  

2022-04-29 - The Linguistics Department will hold its annual year-end Awards and Graduation Celebration on May 4, 2022 from 4.00 to 6.00pm, in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (LCLB 1080). The Celebration will honor students in the department who have won prestigious awards, and who have graduated or will be graduating in AY 2021-22. A full list of award winners...

2022-04-11 - Dr. José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, were among the faculty members honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising by the Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. Professor Hualde has taught at Illinois for 33 years and has directed 26 doctoral dissertations. He received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award for his outstanding...

2022-04-11 - Amber Dunse, Lecturer in ESL, wins the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award. Amber won this award based on her continuing important work in two areas: Her leadership as a trained liaison for the IT Accessibility Liaison (ITAL) Program, which led her to suggest and implement significant improvements and awareness of accessibility practices in the ESL Program, and her...

2022-04-05 - Professor Ryan Shosted and Computer Science Professor Neal Davis collaborated to make Deseret Alphabet texts and searchable transcriptions available online for people to study. The Deseret Alphabet was created by the Mormons and used briefly in the 19th century, mostly for official documents produced by the church. The effort was also supported by the collections from the Rare Book and Manuscript...

2022-03-31 - In a Q & A interview, Associate Professor Xun Yan talks about his research on language testing, its impact on assessment practice, and his proudest moments. LAS Experts is an interview series featuring faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS), and this is the first time for...

2022-03-23 - 48 of our instructors across 56 sections were rated as Excellent in Fall 2021. Congratulations! ARABIC EL KARKAFI,J 403 SAADAH,E 405 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE *ABDAR,O TA 522 AL BULUSHI,Z 111 *BEDNARZ,A TA 111 BILYEU,Q TA 115 *BOWEN,M 115,515 BUONOMO,E TA 111 CARROLL CURRY,E...

2022-03-14 - Graduate students Wafa Abdulla and Gorrety Wawire have both received SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships for the 2022-23 Academic Year. The fellowship is provided by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics to advanced doctoral students.