University of California, Davis

The Department of Linguistics offers a program of study leading to the B.A. degree, as well as two minor programs, one in general linguistics and one in linguistics for language teachers. It also administers English as a second language instruction for UC Davis students. The graduate program in Linguistics is administered by the Graduate Group in Linguistics, which includes a large group of faculty covering a broad range of interests in the language sciences. The M.A. program is designed primarily for students interested in careers related to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages, but also has a track in general linguistics. The Ph.D. program has areas of emphasis in second language acquisition and development, language and society, language and mind/brain, and language structure and theory.

Interdepartmental Sociolinguistics at Davis

The UC Davis Linguistics Graduate Group features prominently in the important new Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. (The Graduate Group is an interdepartmental group uniting faculty and graduate students from 14 departments in the College of Letters and Science, the College of Biological Sciences, and the School of Education.)

Faculty members Janet Shibamoto-Smith (Anthropology, Ling Grad Group chair), Karen Watson-Gegeo (Education), Eric Russell Webb (French), and Robert Bayley (Linguistics) contributed chapters, as did Linguistics PhD graduates Vineeta Chand and Brandon Loudermilk, and Robert Bayley edited the volume. Their contributions reflect the breadth of sociolinguisitic study at Davis, ranging from linguistic anthropology to language policy—from a variationist approach to a psycholinguistic approach. More ...

Making a Difference for English Learners and Teachers

Understanding the Features of Learner English
Cambridge University Press has just published a book by UC Davis Professor of Linguistics John Hawkins and Luna Filipović of Cambridge University: Criterial Features in L2 English: Specifying the Reference Levels of the Common European Framework. This book introduces the concept of criterial features for the assessment of English levels of proficiency and for English instructional methodologies. The authors examine L2 learners' knowledge of the grammar, lexicon and usage of English at the proficiency levels identified by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). An understanding of the criterial features of this knowledge can help instructors efficiently present the grammatical and lexical properties of English that are appropriate for learners at different levels.

Interdisciplinary Language Sciences Lecture Series

The Graduate Group in Linguistics is pleased to host this lecture series, designed to provide our faculty, post docs and graduate students with an opportunity to hear from and meet scholars whose work contributes to the emerging field of Language Sciences. More ...

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