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BA (Hons)

English Language & Linguistics

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

Q300

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

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.

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.

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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

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Future careers

Graduates from our English Language and Linguistics course have gone on to enjoy a wide variety of successful careers.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Part-time£1540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14250 per year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Our BA English Language and Linguistics course is a flexible course with two distinct pathways: a standard pathway and a TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) pathway.

No matter which pathway you choose, the key feature is choice. Whether you are interested in language structure (syntax, phonetics and phonology, morphology), how language varies according to user and context, or the teaching of language, the English Language and Linguistics course will have modules suited to you.

We offer modules relating to language acquisition and change, language and gender, political discourse and augmentation, forensic linguistics, literary linguistics, psycholinguistics and more. Other modules are designed to enhance your verbal and written communication skills, with a view to boosting your future career prospects.

With budding teachers and speech therapists in mind, we have also developed unique career-specific modules: English in Education, and Language Pathology and Clinical Linguistics. These allow you to consider how to apply your linguistics skills in a professional setting.

Alternatively, you can choose to specialise in the related areas of media, forensic and political discourse, or the ‘nuts and bolts’ of language by choosing syntax, phonology and morphology.

You’ll be taught by a small, dedicated team of teachers and researchers who will help you to reach your potential. Our staff have research expertise in areas including Pragmatics, Forensic Linguistics, English Syntax and Phonology, Corpus Linguistics and more. Some have been deemed to be ‘world-leading’ in their fields.

There are few large lectures on this course. First year classes typically take the form of one hour workshops. Later, classes involve more workshops, seminars and group work. There is laboratory work in more technical areas such as Corpus Linguistics.

Independent study and pro-active learning plays an important part in this course, and we encourage you to develop important skills in critical thinking and reasoning.

We’ll assess you through a variety of methods, including written assignments, examinations and oral presentations.