2022-08-12 - The Department of Linguistics welcome new students in the week of August 15-19, 2022!

2022-08-12 - Krystal Smalls, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, has won the LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Assistant Professors) Award for Academic Years 2022-24. The LEAP Award is granted to distinguished early-career faculty at the University of Illinois who demonstrate the highest caliber of academic achievement, scholarly productivity and outstanding contribution to the College of LAS. Winners...

2022-08-12 - Associate Professor Xun Yan has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar, beginning in Fall 2022. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes outstanding contributions by mid-career faculties in the College of LAS, and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years.  

2022-04-29 - The Linguistics Department will hold its annual year-end Awards and Graduation Celebration on May 4, 2022 from 4.00 to 6.00pm, in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (LCLB 1080). The Celebration will honor students in the department who have won prestigious awards, and who have graduated or will be graduating in AY 2021-22. A full list of award winners...

2022-04-11 - Dr. José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, were among the faculty members honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising by the Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. Professor Hualde has taught at Illinois for 33 years and has directed 26 doctoral dissertations. He received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award for his outstanding...

2022-04-11 - Amber Dunse, Lecturer in ESL, wins the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award. Amber won this award based on her continuing important work in two areas: Her leadership as a trained liaison for the IT Accessibility Liaison (ITAL) Program, which led her to suggest and implement significant improvements and awareness of accessibility practices in the ESL Program, and her...

2022-04-05 - Professor Ryan Shosted and Computer Science Professor Neal Davis collaborated to make Deseret Alphabet texts and searchable transcriptions available online for people to study. The Deseret Alphabet was created by the Mormons and used briefly in the 19th century, mostly for official documents produced by the church. The effort was also supported by the collections from the Rare Book and Manuscript...

2022-03-31 - In a Q & A interview, Associate Professor Xun Yan talks about his research on language testing, its impact on assessment practice, and his proudest moments. LAS Experts is an interview series featuring faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS), and this is the first time for...

2022-03-23 - 48 of our instructors across 56 sections were rated as Excellent in Fall 2021. Congratulations! ARABIC EL KARKAFI,J 403 SAADAH,E 405 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE *ABDAR,O TA 522 AL BULUSHI,Z 111 *BEDNARZ,A TA 111 BILYEU,Q TA 115 *BOWEN,M 115,515 BUONOMO,E TA 111 CARROLL CURRY,E...

2022-03-14 - Graduate students Wafa Abdulla and Gorrety Wawire have both received SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships for the 2022-23 Academic Year. The fellowship is provided by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics to advanced doctoral students.

2022-02-26 - Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang has received an offer to join the 2022 Summer Research and Measurement Sciences (RMS) internship program at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton. The ETS internship program is the most competitive internship in language testing that is dedicated to advancing the science and practice of measurement, driving innovation in learning and teaching, and...

2022-02-01 - Professor Tania Ionin is among the five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors named University Scholars 2021-22. A gathering on Jan 31, 2022 honored two years of University Scholars from the Urbana campus. University Scholars are recognized for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. From the Campus News Bureau: "Ionin is a world-renowned scholar in the fields of...

2022-01-26 - The 970 page volume was edited by our own Silvina Montrul (Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics), together with Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland). The Handbook features a large number of contributions from current and former UIUC faculty and students (Abdulkafi Albirini, Elabbas Benmamoun, Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Jill Jegerski, Hyun Sook Kan, Itxaso Rodrígues, James Yoon), which is...

2021-12-15 - We are thrilled to share that Associated Professor Xun Yan has been chosen to receive the TOEFL Essentials New Scholar Award this year. This is the highest achievement award for young scholars in language testing and is sponsored jointly by ETS (Educational Testing Service) and the International Language Testing Association (ILTA). This is also one of only two achievement awards given by ILTA,...

2021-11-30 - The Department of Linguistics is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Xun Yan and Dr. Rurik Tywoniw’s (EPT Coordinator) proposal “Comparing the use of the English proficiency test scores in higher education admissions” was selected to be the winner of the 2022 TOEFL Committee of Examiners (COE) Research Grant from Educational Testing Service. Drs. Yan and Tywoniw will receive $100,000...