CLA Outstanding Graduate Student Award is given to an exceptional graduate student in Applied Linguistics each year. This award includes a $500 travel fund intended for academic activities.
- 2024-2025 Elanur Sönmez and Hannah Lukow
- 2023-2024 Minghui Sun
- 2022-2023 Jingyuan Zhuang
- 2021-2022 Genggeng Zhang
- 2020-2021 Yingliang “Elvin” He
- 2019-2020 Brett Diaz
- 2018-2019 Jamie Kim
- 2017-2018 Michael Amory
- 2016-2017 Lindsey Kurtz and Sheng-hsun Lee
- 2015-2016 Daisuke Kimura and Olesya Kisselev
- 2014-2015 Pin-Yun (Ben) Wang
- 2013-2014 Kimberly Buescher and Brooke Ricker
- 2012-2013 Larysa Bobrova and Jiyun Kim
- 2011-2012 Sungwoo Kim