2021-11-15 - We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 14th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS14), which will be held from February 25-26, 2022 via Zoom. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic...

2021-11-15 - Here are some highlights from the Linguistics department's Spring 2022 offerings: LING 222 Language in Globalization Credit: 3 hours. Introduction to the role of language in globalization by examining communication issues concerning language use across cultural, political and geographic boundaries....

2021-10-11 - Graduate student Ping-Lin Chuang’s paper (Argumentation structure and quality as validity evidence for integrated writing assessment) was selected for the best presentation award at the 2021 MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers) conference, which took place over the weekend of Oct 8th and 9th. This year, this award was very competitive as the conference was cancelled last...

2021-09-08 - 52 instructors across 65 class sections were named on the Spring 2021 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. 28 received outstanding ratings for their teaching. Congratulations! List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent Spring 2021

2021-08-24 - The 16th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-16) was hosted virtually by the Department of Linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 3rd – 5th September, 2021. The Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) is a professional organization devoted to the systematic and...

2021-08-24 - Dear friends, It still doesn't feel real that we are back to a 'normal' semester (minus masks!), but after two semesters and half of working mostly from home, I know many of you are excited to be back in classrooms and labs, though I know that we need to be cautious and many of the useful lessons we learned during the pandemic (such as meetings via Zoom!) will remain with us.  I have...

2021-08-01 - Faculty Fellows Silvina Montrul (Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) and David Dubin (School of Information Sciences) appeared in NCSA news story for their research in "Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers". About...

2021-08-01 - Read about Professor Ryan Shosted and his work with the Mayan community in Storied: https://storied.illinois.edu/found-in-translation/# "The Initiative was born out of recognition of the continuously growing Q’anjob’al-speaking community in Champaign-Urbana—one that had its start in 1987 with the arrival of the Diego and Ana...

2021-06-28 - On Saturday June 26th, the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World concluded the Intensive Summer program in Arabic for high school students with a ceremony. Watch our recorded closing ceremony here: https://illinois.zoom.us/rec/share/...

2021-06-01 - Please join me in congratulating Professor Tania Ionin, who has been selected to receive the prestigious University Scholar award for 2021-22.

2021-06-01 - Congratulations to Professor Silvina Montrul and Professor David Dubin for being selected for funding by the NCSA Fellows program for their research: 'Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers'.

2021-05-04 - We are pleased to announce that Professor Tania Ionin has been selected to receive the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar award for three years, starting Fall 2021. Congratulations, Tania!

2021-04-28 - The 51st Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) will take place virtually between April 29th-May 1st. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by:  José Ignacio Hualde and Jennifer Zhang. Lenition and contrastiveness: Word-...

2021-04-22 - Dr. Yan Tang was chosen as a Humanities Released Time award recipient for his research topic: "The impact of background noise on listening comprehension: Implications for English language teaching, learning, and assessment". Congratulations, Dr. Yan Tang!

2021-04-20 - The Department of Linguistics will be holding a virtual event to celebrate student award winners and graduates on May 11, 4-5pm. Please join us in congratulating the award recipients below for their accomplishments during the 2020-2021 academic year: MATESL / ESL awards: Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence: Alice Houston Mary A. Hussey Award for...