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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...

2021-10-11 - Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang’s paper (Argumentation structure and quality as validity evidence for integrated writing assessment) was selected for the best presentation award at the 2021 MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers) conference, which took place over the weekend of...

2021-09-08 - 52 instructors across 65 class sections were named on the Spring 2021 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. 28 received outstanding ratings for their teaching. Congratulations! List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent Spring 2021

2021-08-24 - The 16th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-16) was hosted virtually by the Department of Linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 3rd – 5th September, 2021. The...

2021-08-24 - Dear friends, It still doesn't feel real that we are back to a 'normal' semester (minus masks!), but after two semesters and half of working mostly from home, I know many of you are excited to be back in classrooms and labs, though I know that we need to be cautious and many of the useful...

2021-08-01 - Faculty Fellows Silvina Montrul (Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) and David Dubin (School of Information Sciences) appeared in NCSA news story for their...

2021-08-01 - Read about Professor Ryan Shosted and his work with the Mayan community in Storied: https://storied.illinois.edu/found-in-translation/# "The Initiative was born out of recognition of the continuously growing Q’anjob’al-...

2021-06-28 - On Saturday June 26th, the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World concluded the Intensive Summer program in Arabic for high school students with a ceremony. Watch our recorded closing ceremony here: ...

2021-06-01 - Please join me in congratulating Professor Tania Ionin, who has been selected to receive the prestigious University Scholar award for 2021-22.