Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington
LINGUA:
Student Linguistics Association
Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL
The schedule for the 17th annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 17), held February 19-20, 2010 (Fri.-Sat.), is now available. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Croft.
LINGUA
LINGUA is a student-run linguistics organization at The University of Texas at Arlington. Nearly every semester, Lingua hosts lectures in linguistics and related fields given by faculty and scholars from the UT Arlington Department of Linguistics and TESOL, GIAL, and other organizations and schools. In addition, Lingua organizes the annual student linguistics conference at UT Arlington (UTASCILT) with linguistic scholars from around the world.
Lingua has encouraged, supported, and fostered the study of lesser-studied languages of the world, such as Akposso, Kam, Kadai, Kurdish, Thai, Hausa, Bai, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Mixe-Zoque, Tamil, Panjabi, Sinhala, Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, Angas, Yi, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Jarai, and Albanian. Lingua's past and current members have conducted research in Albania, Cambodia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, India, Pakistan, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, Russia and all corners of the globe!
Membership
A regular Lingua membership may be held by anyone who is enrolled with the registrar at UT Arlington as taking a University course for credit. An associate membership may be held by anyone else. Contact Lingua at lingua@ling.uta.edu for more information.