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