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...
- 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...