Are you curious about how language changes, persuades or constructs identity? Do you want to hone your professional writing skills? Then our English Language and Linguistics course is for you.
Our programme allows you to specialise in different language pathways:
- Language systems, studying language structure, acquisition & processing and language change.
- Language and communication, studying how language varies according to user and context.
You can also choose to include TESOL modules (teaching English to Students of Other Languages), enabling you to teach both in the UK and abroad.
Why study with us
- English Language at the University of Central Lancashire is ranked top 10 in the UK for overall student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2021)
- Linguistics ranks 5th in the UK with 91% overall student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2022)
- This is a flexible course – choose from a wide range of modules depending on the career you’d like to pursue.
What you'll do
- Work in our English Language Skills Initiative for Employability (ELSIE) programme. In the programme you will gain graduate level writing skills and valuable work experience to prepare you for a range of careers. Professions such as teaching, public relations, editing or speech therapy.
- The Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) route allows you to gain the internationally recognised teaching certificate: Trinity Cert. TESOL.
- Includes career focused modules which are ideal for anyone who wants to be a teacher or speech therapist.
Module overview
Year 1Compulsory modules
• LG1106: Meaning in Interaction
• LG1200: ELSIE (English Language Studies Initiative for Employability)
• LG1222: Sounds and Structures of English
Optional modules• AL1039: Beginners Greek Language
• AL1101: Beginners French Language
• AL1102: Beginners German Language
• AL1103: Beginners Spanish Language
• AL1104: Beginners Italian Language
• AL1109: Beginners Russian Language
• AL1134: Beginners Chinese Language
• AL1137: Beginners Arabic Language
• DFT161: An Introduction to British Sign Language
• EF1600: TESOL Compulsory 1A: Theories and Practice in TESOL
• EF1650: TESOL Compulsory 1B - Theories and Practice in TESOL
• LG1103: Language Variation in Society
• LG1105: Language, Gender and Identity
• LG1107: Corpus Linguistics
• SI1100: British Sign Language 100
Year 2
Compulsory modules
• LG2200: Academic Writing and Graduate Development
Optional modules• EF2216: ESOL and World Englishes
• EF2600: TESOL Compulsory 2A: Teaching Practice
• EF2620: Project Planning and Research Methods in Language Teaching
• EF2650: TESOL Compulsory 2B :Theories in TESOL
• LG1105: Language, Gender and Identity
• LG1107: Corpus Linguistics
• LG2103: Sociolinguistics
• LG2112: Framing the News
• LG2117: Language, Mind and Brain
• LG2118: Language and Literature
• LG2119: Metaphor and Meaning
• LG2120: Guided Study Project
• LG2200: Academic Writing and Graduate Development
• LG2206: History of English
• LG2220: English Accents and Dialects
• LG2223: Approaches to Syntax
Year 3
Optional modules
• EB3602: Teaching Practicum
• EF3002: Work Experience in TESOL: Reflection, Real Life and The Road Ahead
• EF3620: Testing and Assessment in TESOL
• EF3650: TESOL Compulsory 3: Theories & Practice in TESOL
• EF3680: Current Issues in TESOL
• EF3681: Teaching Young Learners
• LG3112: Language and Power
• LG3113: Forensic Linguistics
• LG3117: Clinical Linguistics and Language Pathology
• LG3120: Graduate Career Planning
• LG3220: English Phonology
• LG3222: English Syntax
• LG3224: World Grammars: contrastive linguistics
• LG3225: Discourse, Argumentation, Rhetoric
• LG3236: English in Education
• LG3992: English Language & Linguistics dissertation
• ML3990: Independent Research Project
• ML3995: Dissertation
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