Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (Taught)

This course is particularly suitable if you are interested in language learning and teaching. You may already have tried teaching languages, or would like to pursue a career in teaching. We explore key issues in English language teaching from multiple perspectives, including:

• Second language acquisition

• Motivation and group dynamics

• Psycholinguistics

• Discourse analysis

• Corpus linguistics

• Intercultural communication

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. This course shares some of the same modules as our MA Applied Linguistics, which you can choose as optional modules on this programme. These cover topics including:

• Language teaching: speaking and listening

• English vocabulary: teaching and learning

• Psychology of language

• Intercultural communication

• Sociolinguistics of work