Recent News Items
Feb 22, 2012 – Graduate Research Fellowship Award
Graduate Studies offers a new Graduate Research Fellowship Award. These awards (25-30 per year) are intended to support innovative research or creative works, including well-conceived undergraduate student mentoring, conducted by graduate students under the guidance of faculty advisors. Click here for more information.
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Feb 10, 2012 – Finding Answers in the Book of Mormon
Sara D. Smith, a LING MA student, had an article published in the January 2012 Ensign. She wrote it while interning with the church. Click on the link to view the article.
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Feb 3, 2012 – Sociolinguistics and Arizona Controversy
This controversy is about a city council candidate in Yuma, Arizona who was barred from running for office because she didn't speak English proficiently. The case went to court, and the court brought in "sociolinguistics expert William Eggington, a professor at Brigham Young University," who "presented the court with results of three different tests he administered to Cabrera."
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Feb 1, 2012 – Becoming a Leader in TESOL
Neil Anderson wrote a chapter on Becoming a leader in TESOL, that appears in the Book "Reigniting, Retooling, Retiring in English Language Teaching."
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Jan 27, 2012 – From Mykonos to Appalachia
Editing students in landlocked Utah take readers around the world. Though created by students living in landlocked Utah, Stowaway is surprising in its scope of travel ideas: there are stories on yurting and deep-water soloing. Dr. Marvin Gardner is Stowaway's editor-in chief.
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Nov 23, 2011 – Major University English Tests in China
This article, which was part of Caiping Sun's TESOL MA project,
reports the findings of our research on major university English
tests in China.
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