11/15/2023 - Congratulations to Britni Moore for receiving two prestigious fellowships for work on her dissertation: Police Recruits and the Discursive Construction of Rape in Sexual Assault Training...
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11/13/2023 - Martine Gallardo, a PhD student in the Linguistics Department, was recently invited to the University of Chicago to give a talk in the class Bilingualism and Heritage Languages, which was co-taught...
11/09/2023 - Dr. Eman Saadah was featured in Al-Jazeera news, speaking about her role on the committee for this year's U.S Arabic Debate competition. In this article, she discusses how debating opportunities can...
11/09/2023 - Congratulations to the UIUC Arabic Debate Team for their amazing performance at Qatar Debates' US Debate Championship! This team scored Fourth Place at the national level with team members Shireen...
11/08/2023 - We are delighted to share the exciting news that Silvina Montrul’s book...
11/03/2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Xun Yan, on becoming co-editor of the journal Language Testing. This journal is the premier...
11/02/2023 - International Education Week is an annual event that aims to celebrate global education, cultural exchange, and scholarship as well as to raise awareness about the breadth of international education...
10/30/2023 - Silvina Montrul was featured in a recent article with Illinois Public Media: "More than half of non-Spanish-speaking U.S. Latinos have been shamed". Dr. Montrul gives her commentary on the results of...
10/15/2023 - Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Clark was recognized at the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society this October, where she won the IUS Graduate Student Paper Award with her paper ‘The Veteran...
10/12/2023 - We are excited to announce that the 16th Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference will take place March 1-2, 2024, at the I-Hotel & Illinois Conference Center! This year's theme is "...
10/11/2023 - Stanford University, USA has recently updated the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists. This prestigious ranking is based based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes...
09/27/2023 - We are thrilled to announce that Katherine Kwak, a second-year PhD student, received external funding from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. With the Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award ($1,000),...
09/27/2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Silvina Montrul, who was recently featured in the article "The Parents Trying to Pass Down a Language They Hardly Speak" in The Atlantic magazine! This article...
09/26/2023 - This year marks the start of the first fall semester with the Linguistics Department hosting the Oral English Assessment Interview (OEAI). This interview-based assessment - formerly the English...
09/22/2023 - We are excited to announce that Dr. Silvina Montrul has been recognized with a Marjorie Roberts Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences! This professorship was granted based upon her excellent...