Many of the modules listed below are half-options rather than full-year options, allowing you
to choose up to eight different modules during your final year. Click on the
module titles for more information.
| Module |
Brief details |
|
American Languages |
This module surveys the
sociolinguistic history of North America and explores multilingualism,
language contact, dialect development, language conflict, and language
variation and change in the USA. |
|
Children’s English
|
A look at the grammatical development of monolingual and bilingual
children acquiring English as their first language |
|
Conversation and Social Interaction
|
A look at how we perform actions, construct identities and create
contexts through talk and use language in conversation |
|
Developmental Language Disorders |
A look at how children’s grammatical development is impaired in a
range of different language disorders |
|
Development of Language Processing |
A look at grammatical processing strategies in first and second
language acquisition |
|
Directed Classroom Observation |
A module in which you learn how to analyse classroom interactions
and to reflect on the implications of these for your own teaching |
|
Foundations of Computer-Assisted Language Learning |
Introduction to how computers can be used to enhance language
learning and language teaching |
|
Foundations of English for Specific Purposes |
Introduction to
the historical and theoretical foundations of ESP and major issues in
[and approaches to] the study of ESP |
|
Foundations of Intercultural & Professional Communications |
An introduction
to the major concepts, research topics, and analytical approaches in the
study of intercultural and professional communication
|
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Grammatical Change in the History of English
|
A look at how and why the grammar of English has changed over the
centuries |
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Intercultural Pragmatics
|
A look at cultural differences in the way languages formulate
requests, convey politeness etc. |
|
Introduction to Teaching Young Learners
|
Introduction to teaching English as a foreign language to children
of primary school age |
|
Language and Sex
|
A look at sex differences in linguistic behaviour and language use |
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Language Disorders in Adults
|
A look at grammatical impairment resulting from conditions such as
Aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease |
|
Language Rights |
An exploration of language issues in human rights and linguistic
approaches to them |
|
Language Testing |
A look at the principles and practices underlying languages tests |
|
Language Variation and English Phonology
|
A synthesis of sociolinguistic and phonological approaches to the
analysis of English accents |
|
Learning Second Language Pragmatics |
A module which seeks to explain
the learning of pragmatic abilities in a second language, a research
field known as Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) |
|
Lexical Change in the History of English |
A look at the
nature of vocabulary change in English, past and ongoing today, and the
problems and principles of its study
|
|
Linguistic Description of English
|
An introduction to the techniques of grammatical description and how
they can be used to describe aspects of the grammar of English |
|
Linguistics Project |
|
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Literature and Discourse in Language Teaching |
A look at a range of discourse skills which need to be acquired when
learning a second language |
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Materials Design and Development
|
A look at the principles underlying the design of teaching materials |
|
Mental Lexicon |
A look at how information about words is stored in the brain |
|
Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language |
A look at the
principles of teaching English as a foreign language, through different
contexts, purposes and approaches. |
|
Morphology |
A look into the
principal theoretical questions in morphology |
|
Neuroscience of Language
|
A look at studies investigating the representation and processing of
language in the brain |
|
Phonetics |
An introduction to how we produce, perceive and transcribe sounds |
|
Phonological Development and Phonological
Disorders |
A look at how normally developing and speech-disordered children
learn to talk |
|
Phonology |
A look at analysing sound patterns in English and other languages |
|
Pragmatics: Discourse and Rhetoric
|
A look at how we can mean more than we say, and how we can use
sentences in many different ways |
|
Relevance Theory
|
A look at the role of inference in utterance interpretation, and the
distinction between explicit and implicit content |
|
Second Language Learning |
To look at some
major areas related to second language learning |
|
Second Language Vocabulary: Language Teaching and Use |
A module which examines how
second language vocabulary can be taught, assessed and researched |
|
Semantics |
A look at contemporary ideas on word and sentence meaning |
|
Sentence Processing |
A look at how adults process sentences, and at what kinds of
sentences cause processing difficulties and why |
|
Teaching English for Academic Purposes
|
An overview of the main concerns and issues in the teaching EAP |
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Teaching English for Specific Purposes
|
An overview of major concerns in teaching ESP |
|
Teaching Reading & Vocabulary in EFL |
Introduction to
classroom practices in teaching reading and vocabulary in EFL |
|
Teaching Writing in EFL/ESL |
A look at principles, practices and materials used in teaching
writing skills to those learning English as as Second/Foreign Language |
|
The Role of Age in Second Language Acquisition |
A module which explores the
role that age plays in SLA in a range of different contexts |
|
Topics in Professional Communication |
A look at written and spoken genres of workplace communication |
|
Varieties of English
|
A look at varieties of English spoken in different parts of the UK
and around the world |