2024-10-25
- After several years of planning, we are finally launching our first annual departmental newsletter, which we hope will become a regular tradition going forward. You can read the newsletter here.
2024-10-11 - The University of Illinois just hosted the 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29)! The Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States....
2024-10-10 - This year, the 25th MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers) Conference was hosted by DuoLingo in Pittsburgh, PA, from October 4th-5th. The MwALT conference focuses on balancing validity, reliability, and practicality in test design. This year's presentations highlight the challenge of ensuring accurate and consistent results while considering practical concerns like cost, time, and...
2024-10-09 - Click here to read the full story from the SLCL Newsletter: U of I hosts U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship.
2024-10-04 - Learn more about research from Linguistics Affiliate Faculty Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Research Assistant Professor Heejin Kim with the full article from the Beckman Institute.
2024-10-01 - Congratulations to Silvina Montrul for being named as the Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences at the U of I. Read the full story from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to learn more about the award and the Investiture Ceremony.
2024-09-25 - We are pleased to announce that recent PhD graduate, Dr. Aylin Coşkun Kunduz has been awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship. This is an exciting next step in Aylin's accomplished academic career. During her time at UIUC, Aylin published work in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, The Journal of Linguistics, Bilingualism:...
2024-09-11 - We are excited to welcome several new reading and discussion groups this year, and to welcome back our many long-standing groups! This semester, we have a total of eleven reading and discussion groups. If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our...
2024-09-06 - The Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States. This year, we are excited to host the conference here at UIUC! MidPhon 29 will take place on Friday, October 4th (at...
2024-09-04 - We would like to welcome new faculty members for whom this Fall is their first semester. Let's meet these new additions to the department! Take a look below to find out more about these exciting new faculty members: Karina Tachihara Assistant Professor My research explores how...
2024-08-25 - Greetings! To those who are returning, welcome back, and to those who are joining the department officially this fall, welcome and best wishes as you launch an important new chapter of your life as a member of the UIUC linguistics family. We are joined by 43 new undergraduate majors (25 in CS+LING, 17 in Linguistics, and 1 in Ling-TESL), and 24 new...
2024-08-12 - Congratulations to PhD student Amy Atiles for receiving an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant! This award will support her research: An intervention study on the acquisition of articles by second language learners. The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant allows graduate students to undertake significant data-gathering...
2024-07-29 - This year, Linguistics Instructor Ali Saeedi received an SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty because of his work “The Race for Quality: Comparing Neural Machine and AI-Powered Translation Performance in the American Translators Association Exam”. Congratulations to Ali for this award! To learn more about Ali's research, take a look at his answers to the questions...
2024-06-19 - Congratulations to Xun Yan, who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2024 SAGE/ILTA Best Monograph Award for the recent volume: Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation and Development . This volume, published with co-...
2024-06-07 - Wang Cong taught English in China for six years before arriving at the University of Illinois, but when she arrived on campus Cong knew that communicating isn’t just about proper spelling and grammar but also a grasp of the cultural nuances around the language. She still had a lot to learn about English to make the most of her time here as a student. One of Cong’s personal philosophies,...