2026-04-17 - Our outstanding UIUC Arabic debate team is making waves on the national stage once again! Check out this article highlighting our very own Foziea Garada's recent first place win at the national U.S. Universities Arabic Debating Championship! The link to the article can be found here:...
2026-04-07 - This past weekend, on April 4th, UIUC hosted the 7th Sociolinguistics Symposium. The event took place in the Lucy Ellis Lounge and was attended by approximately 55 people.This year's theme was Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, and the symposium...
2026-04-03 - We are pleased to announce that Linguistics PhD candidate Martine Gallardo is a recipient of the 2026 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship. These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Martine received this award for...
2026-03-25 - The 7th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY), will take place on April 4 at LCLB 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge). The event will bring together scholars and students for a full day of presentations and discussions on a range of topics...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...