Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (Taught)

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