Jill Hallett, PhD
Visiting Lecturer
Linguistics
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Contact
Building & Room:
1617UH
Address:
601 S. Morgan St.
Email:
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hours
Sunday | ||
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Monday | ||
Tuesday | 08:00am – 09:15am | |
09:30am – 10:45am | LING 160 | |
11:00am – 12:00pm | Drop-in hours 1617 UH | |
12:30pm – 01:45pm | Ling 310 | |
Wednesday | ||
Thursday | 08:00am – 09:15am | LING 160 |
09:30am – 10:45am | LING 160 | |
11:00am – 12:00pm | Drop-in hours 1617 UH | |
12:30pm – 01:45pm | Ling 310 | |
Friday | ||
Saturday |
About
(Drop-in Hours also available by appointment; email jillh@uic.edu)
Selected Publications
(2020). Teachers’ development of a socially-stigmatized dialect. Language and Education 34(5), 520-534.
Hallett, J. and Degani, M. (2020). Was it merely contentious or were there casualties? Metaphorical framing in local and international news reporting. Colloquium: New Philologies 5(1), 1-22.
Hallett, Jill. 2015. Contexts for student AAE use in the classroom. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 12(1), 1-26.
Hallett, Jill and Richard Hallett. 2013. Political Identity Gone Viral: Indian and International H1N1 Cartoons. In Hasnain, Imtiaz, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, and Shailendra Mohan (eds.), Alternative Voices:(Re)searching Language, Culture, and Identity. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. 120-151.
Hallett, Jill. 2013. Constructing “Remorse”: The preparation of social discourses for public consumption. Text and Talk 33(2): 189-212.
Hallett, Jill. 2012. It’s a Special Kind of Frog: Co-creating Teaching Materials for the Q’anjob’al in Diaspora. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America/ Actas del Segundo Simposio sobre Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Available online at http://kellogg.nd.edu/STLILLA/proceedings/Hallett_Jill.pdf.
Hallett, Jill and Richard Hallett. 2012. Metaphors and topoi of H1N1 (swine flu) political cartoons: A cross-cultural analysis. In Bramlett, Frank (ed.), Linguistics and the Study of Comics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hallett, Jill. 2011. More attention, this issue needs: Indo-Aryan constituent order transfer in English. Southern Journal of Linguistics 35(1), 1-46.
Cramer, Jennifer and Hallett, Jill. 2010. From Chi-Town to the Dirty-Dirty: Regional Identity Markers in U.S. Hip Hop. In Terkourafi, Marina (ed.), The Languages of Global Hip Hop. London: Continuum.
Hallett, Jill. 2010. Codeswitching in Diasporic Indian and Jewish English-Language Media. In Facchinetti, Roberta, David Crystal and Barbara Seidlhofer (eds.), Global English. Theoretical Aspects and Cross-Linguistic/Cultural Case Studies. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics: Sociolinguistics. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (2012), with Certificate of Advanced Study in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) - Dissertation: “African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies.” Advisor: Dr. Dennis Baron
M.A., Linguistics: Sociolinguistics. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (2009)
M.A., Linguistics: Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL (2006)
Licensures and Certifications
Illinois State Board of Education Type 09 6-12 Secondary Education English Standard Certificate
- Endorsements in senior high school English, English as a second language, and journalism; middle school English as a second language and language arts
- Highly qualified: English (grades 9-12), English as a Second Language, Journalism (grades 9-12), Language Arts (grades 1-8), Reading, Speech (grades 9-12), and Title I Remedial Reading
- Tests: 025 English (before 2004), 096 Basic Skills, 501 ACCESS for ELLs – Group Administration, 502 ACCESS for ELLs – Speaking Component
Selected Presentations
- "Refugee families and the literacy landscape: Schools, libraries, and changing community needs." In symposium, Teaching refugees: The research we have & the research we need (Thomas DeVere Wolsey, organizer). American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. April 13-16, 2023.
- “Language Policy in Practice within the Community Literacy Landscape.” 13th Linguistic Landscape Workshop: Semiotic landscapes in educational spaces. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. September 7-9, 2022.
- "'Right now, we don't have anything': Unmet linguistic needs in the community literacy landscape." Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas. Madison, Wisconsin. November 10-12, 2022.
- “What Do We Mean When We Talk about ‘The Chicago Accent’?” Community lecture at Portage-Cragin Chicago Public Library, Chicago, November 12, 2022.
- “Centering access equity and social justice in the linguistics classroom: Editing Wikipedia articles on endangered and underdocumented languages.” The 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Centering Justice in Language Work. University of Hawai’i/ Virtual, March 2-5, 2023.
- “Libraries, Languages, and Changing Community Needs.” Illinois Reading Council Conference: Revolution – A Change is Gonna Come. Springfield, Illinois, March 9-10, 2023.
- “'Not the main languages we can use here': Linguistic libraryscape and changing community needs." American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL). Portland, Oregon. March 18-21, 2023.