- 2023-06-19 - Hassana Alidou, a 1997 PhD alumna of the Linguistics Department, known as a distinguished figure in the field of African studies and a strong advocate for promoting education in Africa, has passed away. We extend our condolences to those who knew her in our department and to her family, friends,...
- 2023-05-16 - The Department of Linguistics had their Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration on May 5th, 2023. 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 Departmental Awards:...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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)...
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...
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,...