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Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching University of Nottingham

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MA On-Campus Full-time, Part-time 12 months September find out find out

Course overview

This MA course builds on the international reputation of the School of English at Nottingham as one of the foremost centres for English Language research in the world. The School's Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching programme provides a broad course of study in language and linguistics. You will work with several world figures while discovering your own position in applied linguistics.

The principle of language study established at Nottingham combines theoretical and ideological dimensions with practical applications; in particular English Language Teaching (ELT). This course explores ELT from multiple perspectives, including Second Language Acquisition, motivation and individual learner differences, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, among others.

You will be taught using the latest advances in teaching methods and electronic resources, as well as small-group tuition.

Particular features of the programme include:

a theoretical grounding in research methodology and linguistic description
tuition with expert members of staff
teaching informed by active leading-edge researchers in the field
innovative and engaging teaching methods.

For a more extensive overview, please visit the course page on the University of Nottingham's online prospectus.


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