Teaching & Research Facilities

Departmental Research Facilities

Female student in lab The Department has a suite of dedicated laboratories for spoken language transcription and video editing and analysis, and for carrying out linguistic and psycholinguistic experiments.

Linguistics Resource Centre

The Department’s Linguistics Resource Centre comprises four laboratories for the study of language production and comprehension: Our suite of Eyetracking Labs allow us to monitor people’s eye movements while they are reading from a PC screen or listening to language. In the Psycholinguistics Lab, we can measure how long it takes readers or listeners to respond to words, texts or sounds. The Linguistics Lab has equipment for the analysis of sound files. In addition, we have an archive with toys etc. for studies with children and sample experiments that students can replicate.

Virtual Research Environment

We also provide a virtual research environment which allows researchers to access and share tools, training materials and other resources for their research.

Language Teaching Facilities

Our department utilises two Multimedia language teaching laboratories, and these are both equipped with state-of-the-art Sanako and Melissi Digital Classroom software. Melissi allows you to interact with other language students, record digitally, do individual and group work, and simultaneously work on videos. You can learn to subtitle, interpret and check your own work. There are also self-access facilities for independent language learning.

Other Facilities

E-Learning

Teaching on several of our modules is supported by state-of-the-art e-learning technology and virtual learning environments.

Computing Facilities

Colchester campus has 14 open access computer labs with access to the British National Corpus with Xaira, CALL packages, and SPSS for statistics, as well as all the usual facilities

Libraries

The Albert Sloman Library (University library)
The Spicer Library (Departmental library)