2020-03-11
- Dr. Eman Saadah has received Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award this year. Please join us in congratulating her!
- 2020-03-11 - UIUC’s second annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) congregated on February 27th to discuss research results, exchange ideas and dialogues related to sociolinguistics.
- 2020-03-09 - Today we welcome our prospective students, who have been admitted to the linguistics program for the year 2020/2021. We look forward to a fun Open House, meeting the students and showing them our department.
- 2020-03-03 - Peter Lasersohn's article Common nouns as modally non-rigid restricted variables has been published in Linguistics and Philosophy (2020)
- 2020-03-03 - We are pleased to announce that Sea Hee (Sarah) Choi has successfully defended her dissertation, "The Count/Mass Distinction in Native and Non-native Grammar" prepared under the direction of Professor Tania Ionin.
- 2020-02-27 - Dr. Fred Davidson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at this year's Language Testing Research Colloquium in Tunisia this June. His talk is entitled Describing the language construct. Please see here for more details.
- 2020-02-10 - "The second annual Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place on February 27 at the Foreign Languages Building with a renewed focus on studying bilingualism and speech communities. SOSY is a graduate student-run symposium meant to provide graduate students a forum to present and discuss their research related to sociolinguistics and to showcase other work in the field."
2020-02-10 - Anna Tsiola, 5th year PhD student in Linguistics, was recently awarded a scholarship from the Hellenic Link Midwest professional organization. Anna’s research interest centers on Second Language Acquisition and explores how different contextual modalities facilitate uninstructed language learning.- 2020-01-08 - "University of Illinois student Adam Aaronson created Saturday’s crossword puzzle in The New York Times to include several interesting and fun words that have never been used before in The New York Times". Adam Aaronson is UIUC's Computer Science major, LING 100 alumnus, and potential Linguistics minor. For full article, please see ...
- 2019-12-09 - Hittite class, taught by Professor Ryan Shosted, offers students with opportunities to engage with an extinct language using both modern technology and ancient methods of pressing cuneiform symbols into clay. Please click here for the full article.
2019-11-13 - Congratulations to Linda Sims, a Lecturer in the ESL Program here at Illinois and a MATESL grad, for receiving the 2020 Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in Nonpublished Pedagogical Material. These materials were based...- 2019-10-15 - All international students at UIUC are invited to attend Fall 2019 UIUC ESL Grammar Workshop Series hosted by students in EIL 422 English Grammar for ESL Teachers and UIUC ESL Services Program. The website may be found here: https://grammarworkshopsignup....
- 2019-09-24 - The following instructors are rated as Excellent in the past semesters of 2019. Congratulations and keep up the good work! ESL Linguistics/LCTL/SILMW Summer 2019 FAIVRE, Susan *GENT, Helen KOTNAROWSKI, John MILLER, Cheyenne PENNELL, Jin *ROSADO, Cassandra ABDULLA, Wafa *HERMES, Zainab *LUTOMIA, Anne...
- 2019-09-11 - Dr. Ryan Shosted, who has worked with Urbana-Champaign’s Q’anjob’al-speaking community to publish Maya literacy materials and help educate the non-Maya community about the Q'anjob'al language, was interviewed by WLRN, a Florida-based public radio station, about issues concerning Mayan languages.
- 2019-09-06 - The orientation slides for new PhD students in Linguistics have been uploaded to Box