2020-08-27
- Dr. Fred Davidson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium. The conference is scheduled to be held in Tunisia in June of 2021. His talk is entitled Describing the language construct. Please see here...
- 2020-08-24 - Dear friends, I would like to welcome you (back) to a new semester and academic year, which will surely be one to remember. I hope you are staying safe and well and that your summer has been rejuvenating and productive. We won’t be able to get together for our traditional welcome reception, but I do hope to connect with you in some form before not too long. I thank the faculty...
- 2020-08-14 - Congratulations to Anna, her advisor (Kiel), and the dissertation committee members on being awarded the NSF dissertation research improvement grant. .
2020-08-14 - Ryan Shosted, Professor of Linguistics, has worked extensively with the Maya community since arriving in Champaign in 2007, helping to raise awareness about their native language of Q’anjob’al in the C-U community. The Illinois Maya Initiative plans to connect researchers, community social service professionals, and a growing community of Mayan immigrants and refugees in East...- 2020-08-13 - Linguistics PhD Students The new student orientation for incoming Linguistics PhD students will take place on August 19th at 9 AM via Zoom. All members of the department are welcome to drop in and introduce themselves! Please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Tania Ionin, to receive the Zoom link. Please click...
- 2020-08-11 - Taraneh Sanei’s paper "Normativity, Power, and Agency: On the Chronotopic Organization of Orthographic Conventions on Social Media," has been accepted for publication in the premier journal in sociolinguistics, Language and Society. Congratulations, Taraneh!
- 2020-06-18 - On Monday, June 15, 2020, Department of Linguistics and LCTL program welcomed 104 students to the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World, held virtually this year from June 15 to August 8. The program consists of 2 intensive summer sessions, when students are immersed in language instructions in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Swahili. SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the...
- Congratulations to Dee Ann Bates and team for winning the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award!2020-06-03 - Congratulations to Office Managers Ellen Lindsey (CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (Linguistics), Katie Walker (Spanish and SLATE) and Jessica Smith (Classics, Translation and Interpreting Studies and Medieval Studies) for winning the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award. The nominations stated: "In a time of unprecedented turnover and transition (Fall 2019) ...
- 2020-05-19 - Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah on being recognized with an Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence award "Dr. Saadah makes the challenge of learning a language such as Arabic seem simple and attainable. Her passion for the Arabic language and culture is infectious and visible in all aspects of her teaching. Saadah invests deeply within her students through constant efforts...
- 2020-05-15 - A a team led by Silvina Montrul, (PI. Spanish and Linguistics) working in collaboration with Xun Yan, (Linguistics), Jessica Montag, (Psychology), Kiel Christianson (Educational Psychology) and Pam Hadley, (Speech and Hearing Sciences) has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant for their project Validating New Measures of Later Language Development with Spanish...
- 2020-05-13 - The campus has approved the promotions of Professor Ryan Shosted and Professor Chilin Shih to Full Professor, effective August 16, 2020. Congratulations Professors Shosted and Shih!
- 2020-05-08 - May 2020 Graduates BS in COMPUTER SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS Damian John Behymer Kimya Annarose Buckner Francisco Carreon Junquan Chen Shao Xuan Chew Amar Dhebar Qihao Gu Ziqi Huang Barath Suraj Koottala Christopher Evan Kovac Yingying Laurie Kwok Aaron Jacob...
- 2020-05-08 - 2019-20 Department of Linguistics Student Award Winners 1. Outstanding UG student award: Kari Schwink, Daniel Stelzer 2. CWKim research award in Linguistics: Sea Hee (Sarah) Choi, Taraneh Sanei This award was made possible through the generous contribution of Professor Emeritus Chin-Woo Kim to recognize outstanding research of graduate...