Illinois Linguistics Overview State of the Department

Illinois Linguistics: Overview

State of the Department of Linguistics founded in 1965 Division of MATESL founded in 1966 Merger of MATESL program and Department of Linguistics in 2008 One of the oldest and most comprehensive Departments in the nation

State of the Department Staff: (AY 15 -16) – – – 18 tenure stream faculty (15. 25 FTE) 3 visiting faculty 18 non-tenure stream faculty Zero-time adjunct faculty (around 20) Around 50 assistants (TA/GA/RA) (25+ FTE) Students: (AY 15 -16) – 82 graduate students (LING MA/Ph. D: 43, MATESL: 39) – 98 undergraduate majors – 41 undergraduate minors (18 in TESL – largest) Annual budget: $2. 9 mil (AY 15 -16) Sponsored research: $130 k/yr (2011 -2015 avg) Instruction: 15 k+ IU’s (AY 15 -16)

Programs Undergraduate Programs – 2 Majors (Ling, CS-Ling) – 6 Minors (Ling, TESL(2), Arabic, Hindi, African Lgs) – Certificate (TESL) (also available to grad students) Graduate Programs – MA in TESL – MA in Linguistics – Ph. D in Linguistics Service ESL Program Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Program

Research and Scholarship Comprehensive – All subfields of theoretical/general and applied linguistics Interdisciplinary – SLATE, Romance Ling, Beckman Institute, College of Engineering, Applied Health Sciences, Education, Media, School of Library and Information Science, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics – Department as the hub of language/linguisticsrelated research on campus Empirical/Quantitative/Experimental

Areas of Strength Second language studies Heritage languages Sociolinguistics of multilingualism Phonetics and Phonology Computational linguistics and language technology in teaching Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Areal linguistics – South Asian, East Asian, Romance, Semitic, African languages, Global/World Englishes