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  The Linguistics Colloquium series presents Magdalyne Oguti Akiding discussing “L2 Motivation, Anxiety and Intended Effort among learners of African languages in the United States ” on Friday, Sept. 27, from 12:55 to 1:55 p.m. in Gordy 301. Akiding was a TA in Ohio University’s Swahili program and is now […]

By David Bell Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics As the summer heat begins to recede, life in Gordy Hall begins to buzz again, it’s time to welcome you to the academic year 2019-20. We have had our usual comings and goings and some notable visitors, a big promotion, an […]

Ohio University alumna Ruth Yenling Ting ’80M made a generous one-time donation to support the Linguistics Department discretionary fund. She remembered that when she was at OHIO, someone donated a large amount of money to help students from Taiwan, and she wanted to return the favor, allowing the Linguistics Department […]

Linguistics faculty and a graduate student presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Convention and English Expo in March. The Ohio University Linguistics group also met up with alumni as teachers and scholars from around the world converged in Atlanta for the TESOL expo. Two […]

Ohio University alumna Fumiko Yoshimura, from Tohoku Gakuin University, was excited to return to the Linguistics Department after more than 20 years. The Ohio University alumna was a Visiting Scholar for several months to observe classes and tutoring sessions in the English Language Improvement Program. She found this opportunity to […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Ohio University alum Alexandra Koran ’19 won a U.S. Critical Language Scholarship, a highly prestigious and nationally competitive scholarship, to study Swahili for eight weeks in […]

Alumni Peter Andrews ’18B.A., Torri Raines 18M.A., and Talal Alharbi ’18M.A., and Khalid Alharbi ’18M.A. met up with former Visiting Professor Dr. Sinae Lee at the 93rd annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in New York, Jan. 3-6, 2019. “LSA was a blast,” Andrews said. “It was great […]