Applied Linguistics

• Describing Language
• Social and Psychological Aspects of Language
• Discourse Culture and Communication
• Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

You will also choose three optional modules from a wide range and complete a 15,000-word dissertation.

In addition, there are two non-assessed components in the programme:

• All students will take a short course – Introduction to the Bank of English – which introduces you to the 400 million-word Cobuild Bank of English corpus, an invaluable collection of authentic language data against which theory, intuition and pedagogic materials can be measured

• You may also take a course in Academic Writing. Those whose first language is not English are particularly encouraged to follow this course.

You will do a total of six assessed pieces of coursework over the year. For assessment purposes, one of the modules you take during the spring term will be ‘linked’ with the Research Methods module – that is, you will produce a piece of work in the field covered by that module, but with a particular focus on research methods.