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...
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...
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...
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 ....
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...
2024-06-05 - This past May, we celebrated the dedication of the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory! This ceremony celebrates the accomplishments of Dr. Chin-Woo Kim in expanding research in Linguistics on UIUC's campus. Dr. Kim first came to...
2024-05-28 - Congratulations to Dr. Anna Mendoza, on being selected to receive the LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Assistant Professor) Scholar award for 2024-26! The LEAP Award is granted to distinguished early-career faculty at the University of Illinois who demonstrate the highest caliber of academic...
2024-05-16 - The Linguistics Department just hosted the 17th Meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA-17)! The biannual academic conference took place on May 2nd – 4th at the Levis Faculty Center and attracted 148...
2024-05-14 - We are excited to announce that Computational Construction Grammar by UIUC's Jonathan Dunn was published last week by Cambridge University Press! This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language...
2024-05-13 - The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of UIUC ESL Senior Lecturer John Kotnarowski for an English Language Specialist project focusing on teaching academic writing in Kazakhstan. Kotnarowski is part of a select group, as his project is one of over 250 that the English...
2024-05-09 - Through April 19-21, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved with the inception of the inaugural U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event was coordinated by the...
2024-05-06 - On Wednesday May 1st, our department gathered for its annual Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration. It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success! Awards...-
2024-04-23 - The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center. GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language...
- 2024-04-22 - Four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students were awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to study foreign languages this summer. Shireen Aydogan, Xavier Davenport, Karel Pene and Sylvia...
2024-04-17 - We cordially invite you to join the the Linguistics Student Award and Graduate Recognition Ceremony and the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory Naming and Dedication Ceremony that will take place in Lucy Ellis Lounge on Wednesday, May 1, 4pm - 6pm. Join us in celebration of an excellent year's work...