Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching

If you are interested in language learning and teaching, have tried teaching languages, or would like to pursue a career in teaching in the future, 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 the understanding of second language acquisition.

You will 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

- Sociolinguistics of work