2023-05-03
- Joshua Dees, PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, and Katie VanDyne, PhD student in Spanish Linguistics, have just presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 59)! CLS, hosted at the University of Chicago, is the oldest linguistics organization in the US that is completely student-run....
2023-04-27 - Researchers at the University of Illinois have partnered with Immerse, a virtual reality language learning platform, and Meta—formerly Facebook, Inc.—to provide underserved high school students with headsets to participate in virtual reality (VR) language learning courses. Dr. Randall Sadler, Associate Professor of...
2023-04-26 - Maxine Katz, master’s student in the Department of Religion, has been enrolled in Elementary Hindi (HNDI 201) since Fall 2022. HNDI 201 is part of a comprehensive range of courses for studying Hindi, offered in the Department of Linguistics under the instructorship of Dr. Mithilesh Mishra. Maxine has recently received a 2023 National Security Program (NSP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study...
2023-04-21 - We are thrilled to announce that two of our students, Robert Herbolich and Natalie Klunke, have been awarded highly competitive scholarships. Robert has been awarded the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). This will provide him with a unique opportunity to travel to Tanzania where he will study Swahili and immerse himself in the vibrant Swahili culture. Alongside other equally...
2023-03-27 - The Linguistics graduate students at U of I just hosted the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society! The annual academic conference took place on March 3rd - 4th at the Illini Union and attracted a total of 134 attendees, including 15 faculty members and 89 graduate students from U of I and other universities....
2023-03-27 - Faculty from Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), the Department of Linguistics, and the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies are collaborating with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to...
2023-03-09 - This year's Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - Bilingual Education (ITBE) Annual Convention was attended by at least 16 faculty members and graduate students (the majority of whom are instructors in the Illinois ESL Program) from our department! The ITBE Annual Convention is hosted by Illinois TESOL-BE, a non-profit organization that connects educators, researchers,...- 2023-03-01 - Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, doctoral candidate in the Linguistics department, has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG), for her dissertation titled "How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from heritage language returnees". Congratulations to Aylin and her advisor, Professor Silvina Montrul!
- 2023-01-17 - We are happy to share the good news about the publication of a co-authored book by Professors Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul, Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research (Cambridge University Press). The book charts new territory in SLA and establishes a bridge between the SLA research we are renowned for (theoretical) with practical challenges in the classroom,...
- 2022-11-07 - Ping-Lin Chuang, graduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award, for her dissertation titled “What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating processes in an L2 integrated argumentative writing test". In addition, after a competitive...
2022-11-07 - Mabrook (Congratulations!) to Dr. Eman Saadah and the UIUC Arabic Debate team who competed in last week's Arabic Debate at Stanford University! Team member Suad Al Jawhari received first place at the national level for the AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) category, and the UIUC team was ranked # 2 nationally in the same...
2022-10-25 - Dr. Randall Sadler, Associate Professor of Linguistics, and Dr. Tricia Thrasher, who recently graduated with her PhD in French, are the recipients of a gift valued at $300,000 via Meta Platform Technologies (formerly known as Facebook) and Immerse (a company that has created a VR platform for teaching languages). Their project, Immersive technologies for language learning in underserved...
2022-10-21 - View original article here by QNA Doha, October 18 (QNA) - Qatar Debate, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, in collaboration with the Abbasi Center for Islamic Studies at Stanford University, concluded the third edition of the U.S Universities Arabic Debating Championship, with the...- 2022-10-21 - View original article here When summer arrives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and undergraduates go back to their hometowns, a perfect opportunity arises for other, much younger students to take part in the college experience in a way that reaches beyond a typical campus tour. High school...
- 2022-10-14 - Ben Evanoff, undergraduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected to receive the Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award from NCSA for outstanding interdisciplinary contributions to the SPIN project titled Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers. This award recognizes undergraduate students whose research at...