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,...- 2022-10-21 - View original article here When summer arrives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and undergraduates go back to their hometowns, a perfect opportunity arises for other, much younger students to take part...
- 2022-10-14 - Ben Evanoff, undergraduate student in the Linguistics department, has been selected to receive the Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award from NCSA for outstanding interdisciplinary contributions to the SPIN project titled Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...