MA TESOL student Patrice Vnuk successfully defended her Master’s paper, “English literacy for non-print-literate adult English learners: Combining Experiential Learning and the Language Experience approach.” Congratulations, Patrice!
Linguistics undergraduate Emma Blanchette was one of a select group of students inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate academic honor society. You can read more about her here. Congratulations, Emma!
Doctoral student Doaa Alosaimi successfully defended her dissertation, “The acquisition of English consonant clusters by Hijazi Arabic speakers: The effects of L1 transfer vs. markedness vs. input frequency.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, Dr. Alosaimi!
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for summer 2023, for the project “Native Language Category Precision in Second Language Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!
51ÁÔÆæ Philosophy and Linguistics student Marcia Gonzales Llanos has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in linguistics at MIT! Congratulations, Marcia! (photo credit Tessa Culleton)
Doctoral student Maaly Al Omary successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Acquisition of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts”. Congratulations, Maaly!
Doctoral student Sujin Oh successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Individual differences of L1 category precision in L2 speech learning”. Congratulations, Sujin!
Doctoral student Sahar Mehrparvar has been named a C21 Story Experience Fellow for 2023-2024. In this role, she will work in partnership with Milwaukee-based organizations to facilitate storying in a range of forms from oral history to poetry and story-circles. …
Daniel Quigley and Yunhui Kim presenting at the 17th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) at UW Madison.
51ÁÔÆæ will be well represented at this year’s WIGL workshop at UW-Madison. Yunhui Kim will present a paper entitled “On Korean Why-Stripping” and Daniel Quigley will present a paper entitled “Decoding Authorial Style, Tone, and Mood in Poetic Translations through …