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
- 2019-08-21 - Dear all, My warmest wishes to everyone as we are set to begin an exciting new academic year. For those of you joining us for the first time, welcome! And for those who are returning, I hope you had a productive and enjoyable summer. The following is a list of new students and faculty joining us this year. FACULTY 1. Guillermo Del Pinal - Assistant Professor of Philosophy...
- 2019-07-09 - Congratulations to Mien-Jen Wu and her advisor Tania Ionin on being awarded the NSF DDRIG (doctoral dissertation research improvement grant).
- 2019-06-05 - In The Nigerien connection, the LAS newsletter recently profiled Hassana Alidou, an alumna of the Linguistics Department who is currently the ambassador for the United States from Niger. Please read read the article here to learn about Alidou's accomplishments and experience here at UIUC.
- 2019-05-20 - Professor Katharine O. Aston passed away in the early morning of May 16. She was 101 years old. Funeral arrangements are made by Owens Funeral Home, but there will be no visitation. A memorial service (mass) will be held at 10 am, Friday, May 24, at St. John's Catholic Church (Newman Center), at 604 E. Armory, Champaign IL. An obituary appears in News-Gazette, Sunday...
2019-05-03 - Dr. Eman Saadah has been promoted to Teaching Associate Professor effective Fall 2019
2019-04-25 - The Awards and Graduation Celebration for the Department of Linguistics will be held on Wednesday, May 1st from 4 - 6 PM in Room 314A in the Illini Union.