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Linguistics
Associate Chair, Associate Professor, Linguistics
4064B JFSB
(801) 422-8738
don_chapman@byu.edu
Part-time/Adjunct Faculty, Linguistics
4065 JFSB
nicole_bay@byu.edu
Full-time Faculty, Linguistics
4055 JFSB
(801) 422-3448
janis_nuckolls@byu.edu
Full-time Faculty, Linguistics
4043 JFSB
(801) 422-2117
dirk_elzinga@byu.edu
Full-time Faculty, Linguistics, TESOL
4061 JFSB
(801) 422-4034
james_hartshorn@byu.edu
Part-time/Adjunct Faculty, Linguistics
4096B JKB
(801) 422-3137
jenellecox@byu.edu
Part-time/Adjunct Faculty, English, Linguistics
4017 JKB
Jacquelyn_christensen@byu.edu
Full-time Faculty, Linguistics
4052 JFSB
(801) 422-3970
earl_brown@byu.edu
In 2010, BYU faculty members, including Kirk Belnap (Asian and Near Eastern Languages), Jennifer Bown (German and Russian), Dan Dewey (Linguistics), and Patrick Steffen (Psychology), launched a project aimed at empowering students to become successful, life-long language learners.
Biking over two hundred miles pushes the human mind and body to its limits, but so does trying to learn a new language. Associate Professor Troy Cox (Linguistics) has experience with both.
Social interaction is important in any learning environment, but Professor Dan Dewey argued that it is absolutely essential when studying a second language.
As a child in Cambodia in the 1970s, nine-year-old Chab Chheang, nicknamed “Nike” for his love of the shoes, crossed the border into Thailand with his family. But instead of finding safety, Nike’s starving parents were greeted by farmers who presented an excruciating choice: a bag of rice in exchange for their son.