Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching

Entry requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent) in English language/literature or a related arts or humanities subject.

Months of entry

September

Course content

If you are a current language teacher, or interested in pursuing a career in teaching, this course is for you. We explore key issues in English language teaching from multiple perspectives, including:

• second language acquisition
• motivation and individual learner differences
• psycholinguistics
• discourse analysis
• corpus linguistics

Our compulsory modules will give you a grounding in quantitative and qualitative research methods and key issues central to our understanding of second language acquisition.

You are also able to choose optional modules, which cover topics including:

• language teaching: speaking and listening
• English vocabulary: teaching and learning
• psychology of language
• intercultural communication