Master of Arts - Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching

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