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Department of Linguistics

Highlights

ASL Certificate

MJ Shahen, American Sign Language Instructor, demonstrating a sign. Undergraduates can earn a Certificate in ASL.
Research

Dr. Marta Ortega-Llebaria works with an undergraduate who is learning to research sound production. Learn more about our research.
English Language Institute

Students from around the world strengthen their English skills at the ELI, which recently celebrated 50 years of ESL teaching.
Language Learning Lab

Pitt offers approximately 35 languages, and the Department hosts a state-of-the art PC and Mac lab to facilitate language learning as well as research.
TESOL Certificate

Graduate students can pursue the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Certificate. Above are the 2013 winners of the Robert T. Henderson Scholarship, given to students committed to TESOL.
Less-Commonly-Taught Languages

Claude Mauk, LCTL Director, shares a light-hearted moment with the ASL, Arabic, and LCTL coordinators at a "speed-languaging" event.
Arabic Certificate

LCTL offers classes in Arabic with either the Levantine or Egyptian dialect. Students can add courses in Arabic culture, readings in Arabic, Arabic Sociolinguitics, and more to earn a Certficate in Arabic Language and Linguistics.

ASL Certificate

MJ Shahen, American Sign Language Instructor, demonstrating a sign. Undergraduates can earn a Certificate in ASL.
Research

Dr. Marta Ortega-Llebaria works with an undergraduate who is learning to research sound production. Learn more about our research.
English Language Institute

Students from around the world strengthen their English skills at the ELI, which recently celebrated 50 years of ESL teaching.
Language Learning Lab

Pitt offers approximately 35 languages, and the Department hosts a state-of-the art PC and Mac lab to facilitate language learning as well as research.
TESOL Certificate

Graduate students can pursue the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Certificate. Above are the 2013 winners of the Robert T. Henderson Scholarship, given to students committed to TESOL.
Less-Commonly-Taught Languages

Claude Mauk, LCTL Director, shares a light-hearted moment with the ASL, Arabic, and LCTL coordinators at a "speed-languaging" event.
Arabic Certificate

LCTL offers classes in Arabic with either the Levantine or Egyptian dialect. Students can add courses in Arabic culture, readings in Arabic, Arabic Sociolinguitics, and more to earn a Certficate in Arabic Language and Linguistics.

News

Dr. Amanda Huensch Receives the 2026 Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education

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Dr. Amanda Huensch Gives Plenary Talk at 17th Annual PSLLT Conference

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Prof. Kanwit Gives Distinguished Alum Lecture

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Events

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30

Dr. Amani Attia (University of Pittsburgh) - Keep the Human in the Humanities

Nov

13

Covadonga Marqués Fernández (University of Pittsburgh) - ¿Tu novio o tu novia? The presence of heteronormativity in Spanish as a Foreign Language materials

Nov

20

Dr. Uju Anya (Carnegie Mellon University) - Reimagining Black placemaking through multilingual and multicultural exchange in the AfroMetaverse Project