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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

2022-02-26 - Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang has received an offer to join the 2022 Summer Research and Measurement Sciences (RMS) internship program at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton. The ETS internship program is the most competitive internship in language testing that is dedicated to...

2022-02-01 - Professor Tania Ionin is among the five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors named University Scholars 2021-22. A gathering on Jan 31, 2022 honored two years of University Scholars from the Urbana campus. University Scholars are recognized for their excellence in teaching, scholarship...

2022-01-26 - The 970 page volume was edited by our own Silvina Montrul (Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics), together with Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland). The Handbook features a large number of contributions from current and former UIUC faculty and students (Abdulkafi Albirini, Elabbas Benmamoun,...

2021-12-15 - We are thrilled to share that Associated Professor Xun Yan has been chosen to receive the TOEFL Essentials New Scholar Award this year. This is the highest achievement award for young scholars in language testing and is sponsored jointly by ETS (Educational Testing Service) and the International...

2021-11-30 - The Department of Linguistics is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Xun Yan and Dr. Rurik Tywoniw’s (EPT Coordinator) proposal “Comparing the use of the English proficiency test scores in higher education admissions” was selected to be the winner of the 2022 TOEFL Committee of Examiners...

2021-11-15 - We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 14th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS14), which will be held from February 25-26, 2022 via Zoom. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and...

2021-11-15 - Here are some highlights from the Linguistics department's Spring 2022 offerings: LING 222 Language in Globalization Credit: 3 hours. Introduction to the role of language in globalization by examining...