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BA Linguistics This flexible course provides you with a good grounding in a wide range of areas of linguistics in your first year, and allows you a free choice of linguistics options in your second and third years: you can choose from a range of dozens of modules on topics such as language variation, language change, child language acquisition, language disorders, language processing, language learning, language teaching, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and so on. Due to its flexible structure, this is an ideal course to combine with spending a study year abroad (eg in Australia, Europe, Canada or the USA), if you so wish.
BA English Language and Linguistics This course enables you to combine descriptive modules on the sound, word and sentence structure of English and sociolinguistic modules on varieties of English with more general linguistics modules (see the entry for BA Linguistics for the range of these).
BA English Language and English Language Teaching This course offers you the opportunity to learn more about the structure of sounds, words and sentences in English, and to learn about contemporary techniques and materials used to teach English to non-native speakers of English.
BA English Language, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders This course enables you to study how children acquire their first language and what kind of language disorders can affect children, alongside descriptive modules in the structure of English sounds, words and sentences.
BA Teaching English as a Foreign Language This course is designed for those interested in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) as a career, or as a way of earning money while living or travelling abroad. It provides an introduction to a wide range of aspects of the structure of contemporary English, and an understanding of the way in which language learning takes place in classrooms, as well as evaluating current materials and methods used in TEFL.
BA English Language and Literature This course provides a sound foundation in linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the structure and use of modern English, and also offers the chance to study a wide range of literary genres and approaches to literary criticism.
BA English Language and History This course combines the chance to investigate a wide range of historical periods from the sixteenth century to the present with a good grounding in linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the structure and use of modern English.
BA Sociology of Language This course enables you to apply the study of the structure of modern society to sociolinguistic concerns such as accent and dialect variation, multilingualism and language in the media.
Can I study abroad? We offer international exchange variants for all our courses, which enable you to broaden your understanding of the subject by studying at a partner institution in the EU or in the rest of the world, as the third year of a four-year course. Apart from the year abroad, the international exchange courses are identical to the corresponding BA course.
What do the first-year
modules involve? Our four first-year modules are designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to language structure, language use, language acquisition/disorders/ processing, and language teaching, and all are mainly focused on English. Our single honours courses require you to follow three of these modules and give you the option of following the fourth; our joint honours courses require you to follow two of them (and two modules in the other subject).
Foundations of Linguistics This module begins by looking at sounds – how they are made and how they pattern together in speech (phonetics and phonology). We then look at how words are constructed from smaller parts (morphology) and at word meaning. We next consider the way words are combined together to form sentences (syntax) and at sentence meaning
(semantics). Finally we consider how language is structured in conversation. Illustrative examples are mainly (though not entirely) drawn from English.
Foundations of Sociolinguistics We begin by looking at what sociolinguistics is and how it is studied, exploding some myths about how language is used in society. We then go on to explore the relationship between the language we speak and the culture in which we live. Next, we turn to look at language contact and multilingualism, asking why some people use more than one language and how they switch between them. Finally, we consider language variation (both within speakers and in the community) and language change.
Foundations of Psycholinguistics This module begins by looking at how children acquire their first language, and goes on to consider whether there is a critical period in the acquisition of a second language. It also introduces you to contemporary ideas on (and techniques for studying) how knowledge of language is represented in the brain, and how that knowledge is impaired in various kinds of language disorder. In addition, it looks at how we perceive and recognise speech, and how ‘slips of the tongue’ come about.
Foundations of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) This module introduces you to contemporary language teaching practice, showing how classroom practice at every stage is shaped by ideas from the related disciplines of linguistics, education and psychology. We look at contemporary ideas on language teaching methods, techniques, syllabuses and materials, with a practical focus on the classroom, the language and the participants in the learning and teaching process.
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