The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics Edited by Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / University of Maryland With contributions by current and former faculty and graduate students: Abdulkafi Albirini, Elabbas Benmamoun, Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Jill Jegerski, Hyun Sook Kan, Itxaso Rodríguez, James Yoon. Heritage languages...

The MATESL and ESL programs provide a professional working and learning environment, where faculty members, staff, and students are eager to collaborate towards personal and academic development. The ESL program stands out as one of the most organized, efficiently managed, and well-supported program I have been a part of during my time as an ESL instructor.  I

I work on a human data labeling/crowd computing platform in Google's Ads and Commerce organization. My team's job is to generate data that is used to train and evaluate automated systems. Primarily I work on: designing, executing, and delivering studies for ads & commerce engineering teams; designing tools and systems for others to use to collect human-labeled data; and developing best...

I'm mainly working on understanding what we do here at the Idaho Division of Career and Technical Education as there's a lot to learn! I'm helping a bit on our annual report that goes to the legislature and also with Perkins reporting which affects our funding at a federal level.

I am currently utilizing patient data to build predictive models for patient outcomes. I work with cross-functional teams to determine best test design and research hypotheses for our research projects. This new role is a perfect intersection of my academic interests and training, and the corporate research experience I gained at Kohl's.

Dr. Fred Davidson is Professor Emeritus in Illinois Linguistics. He will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium in June 2021 and he is one of the panelists in the department's professional development workshop about career outside academia.

Dr. Rurik Tywoniw - English Placement Test Coordinator - I am currently beginning my position as EPT coordinator. I look forward to helping maintain and improve the excellent English Placement Test system at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In my own time, I am working on submitting manuscripts from my dissertation research for publication, and working on computational linguistics...

The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul INaLCO, Paris / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has...

The MATESL and Linguistics/SLATE programs provided me with theoretical and practical knowledge that could easily be applied to the real world. Diverse teaching and researching opportunities I had under the guidance of amazing mentors have been invaluable (e.g., teaching ESL writing, administering the EPT), and these helped me grow professionally.

Currently, I'm developing a new business writing course called "ESL 525 Elements of Business Writing" in collaboration with my colleagues in Illinois ESL. It is targeted at upper-level international students who needs a single course sequence to fulfill their graduation requirement and wants to study business writing rather than academic writing for their career goal. I'm excited about bringing...