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Breaking Down Linguistic Barriers through Research

Growing up in Asturias, Spain, Claudia Matachana spoke the country’s traditional form of Spanish as well as Asturian, a minoritized language. Though she didn’t understand the complex social forces at play as a child, Matachana realized early on that other people make assumptions about one’s background and worth based on the language they speak.

“Language is the first thing, apart from your physical appearance, that people perceive about you,” she says. “I’ve long been fascinated by the power of language to build bridges through communication, but also to construct barriers between certain social groups.”

After earning a BA in Spanish philology and an MA in teaching Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Oviedo (Universidad de Oviedo), Matachana came to UMass Amherst as an exchange student in the fall of 2018. Since then, she has worked at the university as a teaching assistant and has researched language ideology and linguistic discrimination. Now a PhD student in UMass’s Spanish and Portuguese Studies department, concentrating in Hispanic linguistics, she is working on a dissertation about the experiences of Puerto Rican Spanish speakers.  

Matachana conducts her research in the nearby city of Holyoke, MA, where over half of the residents are Hispanic, with the vast majority of Puerto Rican heritage. With the aid of a UMass undergraduate student, who is herself a native speaker of Puerto Rican Spanish, Matachana holds individual sociolinguistic interviews with teenage Puerto Rican Spanish speakers to learn about their beliefs and experiences around language, especially in school settings. She also plans to hold larger focus groups to dig deeper into these topics. The research is supported by a competitive National Science Foundation Linguistics Program–Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant .

“When a language variety, like Puerto Rican Spanish, is stigmatized, normally it wouldn’t be present in a school. I’m interested in whether teenagers who speak this variety at home maintain its regional linguistic features while at school,” Matachana explains. “I also look at the linguistic ideologies or discrimination that they have encountered in the classroom and in the community, and how this affects their educational experiences, their own ideologies and practices around their Spanish, and their self-esteem and identity."

I’ve long been fascinated by the power of language to build bridges through communication, but also to construct barriers between certain social groups.

Matachana stresses that there’s no such thing as ‘good’ Spanish or ‘bad’ Spanish from a linguistic point of view. Such beliefs are based on ideological processes related to power, which are applied to decide something is ‘correct' or 'incorrect.’ Yet, in the interviews with Holyoke youth, Matachana finds evidence of pervasive beliefs that the “correct” form of the language is the Spanish spoken in Spain.

“Most of the participants feel that Puerto Rican Spanish is not represented in the classroom, and they are learning things that don’t relate to them," she recounts. “In some cases, this has caused them to stop studying or speaking Spanish in school at all. Some people have told me about traumatic experiences, such as being punished for speaking Puerto Rican Spanish in school or failing a test because they used words that are from Puerto Rican Spanish and not the variety they are taught in school.”

Ultimately, says Matachana, the findings from her study may shed light on language ideologies and linguistic discrimination related to any minoritized language.  

“Understanding the ideological process behind language variation helps us understand the sociological process that happens in minoritized communities,” she says.

Throughout her research, Matachana has been moved by the stories of “resistance and resilience” she’s heard from young people in response to the discrimination they’ve encountered. In the future, she hopes that her research may influence the way Spanish is taught in schools, as well as how teachers interact with speakers of different dialectical varieties.  

Matachana's advisor, Meghan Armstrong, graduate program director and associate professor of Hispanic linguistics, said, "Claudia's dissertation project provides a sorely needed look into the lived experiences of heritage speakers of Spanish in our area, specifically of Puerto Rican background. Her work confirms the ways students in her study have encountered linguistic discrimination in the classroom, and the effects of these encounters on their educational trajectories. In addition, the dissertation documents which regional features are most commonly used by study participants. All of this has very real, practical, applications for Spanish teachers in our region, and I hope her findings will be disseminated widely."

Matachana expects to graduate from UMass Amherst in the summer of 2024 and has already secured a position as an assistant professor of Spanish at Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

As an international student at UMass, Matachana has found abundant resources and a robust support system at the Graduate School.  

“I feel that my ideas are heard here, and I’m respected as a graduate student,” she says. “This is an amazing place where I can grow and develop as a researcher and a person.”

This story was originally published in February 2024. 

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Andrew lamont successfully defends his dissertation.

Andrew Lamont successfully defended his dissertation “Directional Harmonic Serialism” on Tuesday May 31, and is soon on his way to the UK to take up a position at the University College London. Pictured from left to right with the defense fish are Gaja Jarosz, Joe Pater, Andrew Lamont, Neil Immerman (CICS) and Michael Becker. Congratulations Andrew!

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Author archives: linguist, umass linguistics in the top 3 worldwide again.

UMass Linguistics was ranked #3 in the world in the 2023 QS worldwide rankings. This is the seventh year in a row UMass has been in the top three, and we are the only department besides MIT to have stayed in the top three over this time. Here is the link for this year’s rankings – to see previous years, just change the year in the URL.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2023/linguistics

Duygu Göksu Successfully Defends Dissertation

We’re pleased to share the happy news that Duygu Göksu successfully defended her dissertation on Wednesday, August 2nd. Her dissertation is titled “Long(er) Object Movement in Turkish” focuses on long object movement (LOM), an operation usually equated with restructuring, and demonstrates that LOM is not a uniform phenomenon in Turkish. Verbs allowing LOM fall into two types and exhibit distinct behaviors, with only one type counting as restructuring. 

Pictured above (along with the dissertation fish), her committee consisted of Faruk Akku? (Co-chair), Kyle Johnson (Co-chair), Rajesh Bhatt, and – not pictured, Luiz Amaral (Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Outside Member).

Congratulations, Duygu!

Linguists take a knee

The world has been impressed with the courage of American football players in taking a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to racial injustice. High school students have joined football players and cheerleaders, climate scientists have joined in, and now European soccer players have joined.  There is a picture below of members of the Wuppertal Linguistics Department joining Tom Roeper in taking a knee after he gave a lecture there this week.

Here is a personal statement from Tom Roeper that he made at the time:

Scientists Take a Knee     October 19, 2017   [see: #scientiststakeaknee]

“One reason that I made this trip to Germany is to study my family history.

My grandparents, Max and Gertrud Bondy started one of the first progressive schools in Europe, Schule Marienau. And my great-uncle Curt Bondy was one of the Jewish professors fired by the nazis in 1933 in Groningen. In 2015 they put up a plaque in Göttingen honoring those professors.

Why was there no response from the German academics in 1933? It is often said that they were anti-semitic too—but they why did they hire jewish professors in the first place? I think it has more to do with the inherent cowardice of the academic profession than with anti-semitism.

At the moment, something similar is happening in the US: Donald Trump is demanding that people stand up for the flag and the anthem and pledge allegiance to the flag. This has led to a movement of football players emphasizing Black Lives Matter and opposition to police brutality by not standing up for the national anthem. Trump says they should be fired.

It is also in effect a demand by Trump for forced overt patriotism . It is, I think, exactly like the law that everyone had to say “Heil Hitler” or risk being fired or jailed. This was very hard for my grandfather—who led his entire school—but he was afraid not to say “Heil Hitler” until they passed a law that it was illegal for jewish people to say it.   These symbols are important ways of controlling people.

Pledging allegiance or standing before the national anthem demands an overt sign of loyalty that everyone can see every day. In schools throughout America, children of 8yrs have to pledge allegiance to the flag. What happens if they refuse? This is what my daughter did when she was 13years old. Right now, you are not kicked out of school, but that could change easily.

They ask for pledges of children—and Trump said that football players who do not stand for the national anthem should be fired,. Will they demand that children be kicked out of school for not doing it. They avoid demanding such things of professors. Now is the time—as it was in 1933—for academic people to demonstrate resistance. Professor Nicolayson from Hamburg, who studies German universities under the 3 rd Reich, sent me a photo from a news report of German soccer players at a contest recently on Sept 28 th , who “took a knee” in solidarity with American soccer players.

I think academic people should do that as well and there is great significance in German academic people expressing solidarity with Americans at this point. At #scientiststakeaknee, there are many pictures of scientists, including one group of 100 climate scientists, all taking a knee.

I will take a knee after this lecture and ask someone to photograph it—I invite any of you to join me who would like to show solidarity with Americans under attack for not showing coerced patriotism.”

Pictures below: Climate scientists, cheerleaders, German soccer players, various faculty members, Wuppertal linguistics department.

Amanda Rysling successfully defends her dissertation

Amanda Rylsing successfully defended her dissertation “Preferential early attribution in segmental parsing” on June 16th. Congratulations Amanda!

Amanda at her defense (photo credit Jérémy Pasquereau, via bdillon on twitter)

Brian Smith to UC Berkeley

Brian Smith (UMass PhD 2015) will be taking up a position as a visiting assistant professor in phonology at the University of California Berkeley in the 2017-2018 academic year. Congratulations Brian!

New NSF grant to Alice Harris

Alice Harris has just been awarded a new three-year NSF research grant “Perception and production of clitics”. The purpose of the grant is to analyze, in collaboration with Arthur Samuel of Stony Brook University and the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language, the processing and production differences among clitics in different positions, and to test whether differences are the same cross-linguistically.  This is part of a larger project that will also include differences among affixes and will compare affixes with clitics. The grant will also support her continued fieldwork on the endangered Caucasian language Udi .

SCiL and “Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60” at the 2018 LSA

The  Society for Computation in Linguistics , founded by UMass faculty Gaja Jarosz and Joe Pater, will have its inaugural meeting in conjunction with the annual meeting of LSA in Salt Lake City Jan. 4-7 2018. The call for papers is now out, with a deadline of August 1 (further details available at the link above). It will include a special session on “Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60” (see the poster below for speakers), funded by an NSF conference grant to UMass (Pater PI, Brendan O’Connor of CICS co-PI).

Pater receives collaborative NSF grant for interdisciplinary research with Moreton, Pertsova, and Sanders

Joe Pater is the UMass PI for a new collaborative NSF grant “Inside Phonological Learning”, which will begin this fall, and last for three years. The aim of the grant is to better understand the contribution of implicit and explicit processes in laboratory studies of phonological learning, and it will use both behavioral and ERP studies in pursuit of that goal. At UMass, Pater is collaborating with co-PI Lisa Sanders of Psychological and Brain Sciences on the ERP studies, and PhD student Brandon Prickett will be the RA for the upcoming year. Pater and Sanders are working together with PI Elliott Moreton (UMass PhD 2002) and co-PI Katya Pertsova of UNC Chapel Hill on the behavioral studies. The total award for the UMass portion of the gramt is $378,432.

Linguistics Faculty Statement on Immigration and Travel Ban

We stand together with our Chancellor and with the Linguistic Society of America in affirming our commitment to the welfare of all of our students and colleagues, regardless of their religion or country of origin. Restricting visas based on religion or country of origin undermines intellectual freedom and violates the most fundamental American values. 

The recent executive order on immigration resulted in the detention of hundreds of legal US residents. Detaining or deporting legal US residents for no reason other than religion or country of birth is un-American. We stand behind our students and colleagues from banned countries and will do all we can to support them.  Furthermore, the field of Linguistics inherently requires collaboration with speakers of all of the world’s languages.  As scholars of language, we have a special obligation to look at the linguistic dimension of international relations, including connections to and research in languages of the Middle East and Africa.  For this reason we do not recognize or accept any ban on students and visiting scholars applying to our department from any country, including those where visa applications are being limited.  We welcome applicants from all countries, including Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.  We will oppose any efforts to deny a visa based solely on religion or national origin.   

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This collection contains open access and campus access Masters theses, made possible through Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The full content of open access theses is available to all, although some files may have embargoes placed on them and will be made available as soon as possible. The full content of campus access theses is only available to those either on the UMass Boston campus or with a UMass Boston campus username and password. Click on the "Off-Campus UMass Boston Users" link on the record page to download Campus Access publications. Those not on campus and those without a UMass Boston campus username and password may gain access to this thesis through resources like Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global or through Interlibrary Loan.

Theses from 2024 2024

Writing For Your Profession: L2 English Students' Acquisition of Academic English , Sonja Haakonsen

Theses from 2023 2023

The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity , Casey Erin Anthony

Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape , Gabriel Frost Johnson

Theses from 2021 2021

Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances , Jacquelyn K. Bertman

Theses from 2020 2020

Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development , Tina S. Randall

Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit , Deborah A. Smith

Theses from 2019 2019

Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency , Liz Ging

Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms , Katharine M. Ward

Theses from 2017 2017

Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce , Kristen E. Schlapp

Theses from 2016 2016

Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play , Kathleen R. McGovern

Theses from 2015 2015

Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity , Misty Crooks

Theses from 2014 2014

What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse , Caleb Reed

Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women , Hadeel Salman

Theses from 2012 2012

Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics , Marc E. Black

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Join a cohort of scholars, researchers, and activists dedicated to linguistic diversity.

UMass Boston's PhD program in Applied Linguistics is a critically-oriented community of scholars, researchers, and activists dedicated to understanding linguistic diversity in everyday life. Our unique program emphasizes learning-by-doing through mentorship, coursework, and community-engagement. The Applied Linguistics PhD prepares candidates for teaching, research, and public advocacy careers in higher education, government, community, nonprofits, and private organizations.

Our apprenticeship model combines intensive faculty mentoring from the department’s internationally recognized faculty with structured support from a diverse and active doctoral student community . We also draw on the interdisciplinary expertise of our colleagues across Greater Boston and around the world to provide opportunities for community-engaged scholarship . Applied Linguistics doctoral students are involved in a range of local and global projects and initiatives related to our areas of inquiry : bilingual/multilingual education, multilingual language policy, critical applied linguistics, social resources and social contexts in language learning, and sociocultural theory.

Our curriculum is designed to engage future researchers in critical study of language in society. Through the exploration of cutting-edge research methods, students will develop a comprehensive and deep understanding of the theoretical, empirical, and practical dimensions of language use, language teaching and learning, and language policy in local and transnational contexts; and how they interrogate systems of power that produce marginalization, exploitation, and discrimination. Simultaneously, students cultivate their own scholarly identity, develop their inquiries, and generate knowledge to improve life in our schools, communities, and society. Students and faculty collaborate on research projects, manuscripts, advocacy work, and conference presentations throughout the doctoral program. 

Our PhD program requires three years of residency. During the first two years, a typical course load is three courses per semester (fall and spring) plus department events including the Colloquium, Roundtables, working groups, and talks; classes are offered between 4 and 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Funding, including tuition, living stipend, and health insurance, is available for up to three years on a competitive basis.

Please contact Graduate Program Director Professor Avary Carhill-Poza for information about the program, application process, or connection to current students: [email protected] .

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The Department of Applied Linguistics at UMass Boston is committed to cultivating diversity in scholarship and scholar identity and to providing intellectual, social, emotional, and financial support to students from groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education. As such, we strongly encourage students with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, including first generation students, international students, students of color, and linguistically diverse students to apply.

The deadline to submit all materials is January 1 for fall admission. Applicants are responsible for confirming with Graduate Admissions that their application is complete (including all documents and transcripts) well before January 1. Applicants to the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics should submit the following admissions materials:

• UMass Boston Graduate Application
• Official transcript from each college and university attended (including evidence of a master’s degree in applied linguistics or related field, with a minimum graduate GPA of 3.0)
• A current Curriculum Vitae
• Three letters of recommendation, at least two of which should come from individuals who can assess the applicant’s academic preparation for advanced graduate work
• One well-written sample of academic work (e.g. MA thesis, course paper, research project, published article, etc.)
• Statement of purpose [1500 words maximum] that addresses the following questions:
• How do your research interests map onto the areas of inquiry supported by the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics (bilingual/multilingual education, multilingual language policy, critical applied linguistics, social resources and social contexts in language learning, and sociocultural theory)?
• What practical or real-world changes do you hope to see as a result of your research, scholarship, and/or activism?
• What professional, personal, and academic experiences have especially equipped you to bring a critical perspective to your research, scholarship, and/or activism? And, how do your experiences as a multilingual language learner, language teacher, or language user inform your goals? (For applicants who are not multilingual, please explain your plans for developing fluency in another language while completing the PhD program.)

For international students who have not completed at least two academic years of full-time study (excluding ESL or test-prep) at an approved English-speaking college, proof of English language proficiency is required.

Deadlines & Cost

Deadlines: December 1 for fall

Cost: For additional information regarding tuition and fees, please visit the Bursar’s Office or send an email to [email protected] . Please refer to Graduate Student Financial Aid for more information on financial aid.

Application Fee Waivers: Fee waivers are automatic for all UMass Boston alumni, veterans, and McNair Scholars. Additionally, fee waivers for financial hardship are granted to applicants on a first-come-first-serve basis. To request a fee waiver, applicants should first complete their application (but not submit it), then send an email to the Program Director with the subject line: PhD Fee Waiver Request. State your reasons for requesting the fee waiver in your email and attach a letter from your academic advisor attesting to the financial need to waive the application fee. Applications must be complete in order to receive a fee waiver.

Support: Funding for doctoral students—including tuition, living stipend, and health insurance—is available for up to three years on a competitive basis. Applicants to the PhD program in Applied Linguistics are considered for Graduate Assistantships during the application review process in January.

Coursework is the primary way for students to develop their scholarly identity, knowledge, and research skills as they refine a dissertation topic for study. During the first two years of the PhD program, students are encouraged to explore a range of topics and get to know faculty before they choose an advisor for their dissertation project. In their third year, students move on to candidacy by passing associated benchmarks supported by their inquiry courses. The following courses are offered in the Applied Linguistics PhD Program:

Core Courses (9 Credits)

• APLING 700 - Issues in Applied Linguistics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 701 - Issues in Second Language Acquisition 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 702 - Issues in Sociolinguistics 3 Credit(s)

Seminars (9 Credits)

• APLING 707 - Current Research on Language and Pedagogy 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 708 - Corpus Linguistics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 709 - Language Policy 3 Credit(s)

Colloquium (1 Credit)

• APLING 890 - Graduate Colloquium in Applied Linguistics 1 Credit(s)

Research Methods Courses (9 to 15 Credits)

Complete at least three courses from below.

• APLING 703 - Applied Linguistics Research Methods 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 704 - Advanced Discourse Analysis 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 705 - Advanced Ethnography 3 Credit(s)
• PPOL-G 604L - Statistical Methods in the analysis of Social Problems I 3 Credit(s)
• PPOL-G 605L - Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Social Problems II 3 Credit(s)

Electives (3 to 9 Credits)

Complete no more than three from below.

• APLING 601 - Linguistics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 603 - Language, Culture and Identity 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 605 - Theories and Principles of Language Teaching 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 611 - Methods and Materials in Foreign Language Instruction 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 612 - Integrating Culture into the Language Curriculum 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 614 - Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 615 - Dual Language Pedagogy 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 618 - Teaching ESL: Methods and Approaches 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 621 - Psycholinguistics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 623 - Sociolinguistics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 627 - Phonetics and Phonemics 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 629 - The Structure of the English Language 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 633 - Discourse Analysis in ESL 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 635 - Literacy & Culture 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 637 - Ethnography of Education: Culture, Language, & Literacy 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 670 - Testing in the Bilingual/ESL Classroom 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 673 - Reading in the Bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) Classroom 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 696 - Independent Study 1-6 Credit(s)
• APLING 697 - Special Topics in Applied Linguistics 1-6 Credit(s)

Inquiry Courses (6 Credits)

• APLING 891 - Qualifying Paper Seminar 3 Credit(s)
• APLING 892 - Dissertation Proposal Writing Seminar 3 Credit(s)

Dissertation Research Course (12 Credits)

• APLING 899 - Dissertation Research 1-12 Credit(s)

Graduation Criteria

Complete 55 credits from 16 courses including three core courses, three seminars, one colloquium, three to five research methods courses, one to three electives, two inquiry courses, and one dissertation research course.

Students with a master’s degree in a relevant field earned no more than seven years before matriculation may be eligible for advanced standing awarding them up to twelve credits toward the degree.

Doctoral candidacy:   Acceptance of a qualifying paper and dissertation proposal. Dissertation:   Compose and defend a dissertation based on original research.

Statute of limitations:   Seven years.

Graduate Program Director Professor Avary Carhill-Poza [email protected]

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Established in 1937, the Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the metropolis of Nizhny Novgorod (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Officially recognized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod (LUNN) is a small-sized (uniRank enrollment range: 2,000-2,999 students) coeducational Russian higher education institution. Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod (LUNN) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor's degrees (i.e. certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation), bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctorate degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study table below for further details. This 87-year-old Russian higher-education institution has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. The acceptance rate range is 60-69% making this Russian higher education organization a moderately selective institution. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment. LUNN also provides several academic and non-academic facilities and services to students including a library, sports facilities, study abroad and exchange programs, online courses and distance learning opportunities, as well as administrative services.

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This institution admits Men and Women (coed).

Admission Selection

Has Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod a selective admission policy? Yes, based on entrance examinations.

Admission Rate

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod's acceptance rate range is 60-69% making this institution a moderately selective higher education institution.

International Students Admission

International students are welcome to apply for admission at this institution.

Admission Office

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Size and Profile

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Student Enrollment

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod has an enrollment range of 2,000-2,999 students making it a small-sized institution.

Academic Staff

This institution has a range of 300-399 academic employees (Faculty).

Control Type

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod is a public higher education institution.

Entity Type

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod is a non-profit higher education institution.

Campus Setting

This institution's main campus is located in a Urban setting.

Academic Calendar

This institution adopts a Semesters type of academic calendar.

Religious Affiliation

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod does not have any religious affiliation.

Facilities and Services

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University Facilities

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University Library

This institution has a physical Library.

University Housing

Not reported

Sport Facilities/Activities

This institution features sporting facilities and organizes sports activities for its students.

University Services

uniRank provides below an overview of Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod's main services:

Financial Aid

Study abroad.

This institution offers study abroad and exchange program opportunities for its students.

Distance Learning

This institution provides a distance learning mode for certain programs or courses.

Academic Counseling

Career services.

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Recognition and Accreditation

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Institutional Recognition or Accreditation

Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod is legally recognized and/or institutionally accredited by: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Specialized or Programmatic Accreditations

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Memberships and Affiliations

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Affiliations and Memberships

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Academic Structure

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Social Media

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Free Online Courses

Open education global.

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