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Course modules BA English Language


First year Foundations of Sociolinguistics


Foundations of Psycholinguistics


Foundations of Linguistics One linguistics, language or social science option


Second year Three English language options


One linguistics, language, social science or project option


Third year Three English language options


One linguistics, language, social science or project option


BA English Language and Linguistics


First year As for BA English Language


Second year Two English language options


Two linguistics options


Third year Two English language options


Two linguistics options


BA English Language and English Language Teaching


First year Foundations of Sociolinguistics


Foundations of Linguistics Foundations of Teaching English as a Foreign Language


One linguistics, language or social science option


Second year Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language


Second Language Learning Two English language options


Third year Three English language teaching options


One linguistics, language, social science or project option


BA English Language, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders


First year Foundations of Linguistics Foundations of Psycholinguistics


Foundations of Sociolinguistics


One linguistics, language or social science option


Second year Psycholinguistics


Child Language Acquisition or Second Language Learning


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


One English language option One linguistics option


Third year One English language option One linguistics option Two acquisition and disorders options


BA Linguistics First year


As for BA English Language


Second year Three linguistics options One linguistics, language, social science or project option


Third year Three linguistics options One linguistics, language, social science or project option


and are designed to equip you with a wide range of practical and transferable skills. You might find yourself digitally recording dialect speakers in a small traditional fishing community, you might design and run some language experiments to see how we process language, or you might be scouring digitised child language databanks to see how children acquire the sounds and structures of English. But you will, at the same time, be acquiring valuable skills that will serve you well once you have completed your course – skills that employers look out for.


Which course should I choose?


Our courses in English language and linguistics have an extremely flexible structure. Not only do they offer a wide range of (more than 50 different) modules, they are also designed to enable you to switch courses at the end of your first or second year, if you wish. They also offer you the chance to undertake project-based work, either as part of the assessment for specific modules, or as a free-standing option. Additionally, it is possible to study a foreign language as an integral component of many courses, or to take a module in a different discipline (eg sociology) in each year of your course.


Our courses are designed to familiarise you with key concepts, issues, ideas, theories, and research methods in contemporary research in English language and linguistics.


The main focus of each of our courses is as follows:


BA English Language This course combines descriptive modules looking at aspects of the structure of sounds, words and sentences in English with (ever popular) sociolinguistic modules looking at the insights offered by new research into language variation in English (social, regional, historical etc).


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