MResAnalysing Language Use
Study location | United Kingdom, Colchester Campus |
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Type | Master courses, full-time |
Nominal duration | 1 year |
Study language | English |
Awards | MRes |
Entry qualification | Undergraduate diploma (or higher) an overall grade of 2:2 and above |
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Language requirements | English IELTS: 6.5 overall (with a minimum component score of 5.5 except for 6.0 in writing) |
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Other requirements | At least 1 reference(s) must be provided. Reference should be written on official letterhead, signed and dated. Please upload it in the Documents section. CV |
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Overview
Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.
Programme structure
Year 1
Dissertation (Research)
CA I – Conversation and Social Interaction (optional)
Language and Sex (optional)
Pragmatics: Discourse and Rhetoric (optional)
Sociolinguistic Methods 1: Data Collection (optional)
Sociolinguistic Methods: Data Coding and Analysis (optional)
Variationist Sociolinguistic Theory (optional)
Varieties of English (optional)
Variation in English II (optional)
Career opportunities
On our course you develop key employability skills including thinking analytically, research design, data collection using quantitative and qualitative methods, data analysis and essay writing. Our course can lead to a career in areas such as academia, secondary school teaching, forensics, publishing, administration, and public service.
Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil. We offer supervision in areas including language acquisition, language learning and language teaching, culture and communication, psycholinguistics, language disorders, sociolinguistics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics.