BA English Language and Language Development (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

Bachelor's degree

In Colchester

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    4 Years

About the course
Our BA English Language and Language Development (including foundation year) is open to Home, EU and international students

It will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills


This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study

During your Year Zero, you study four academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module


You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK


After successful completion of Year Zero in our International Academy, you progress to complete your course with the Department of Language and Linguistics, an academic community in which the majority of research is rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, placing us firmly within the top 10 departments in the UK and among the top 150 departments on the planet (QS World University Rankings 2016)


Unlike other English Language courses in the UK, our focus is not on the history of language, but on the contemporary use of English – on the way that we use language, and the ways in which language is changing

You explore specialist topics including:
The relationship between language and mind
First and second language acquisition
The development of bilingual children
Language disorders
You study how children acquire their first language and investigate which language disorders may occur, whilst simultaneously receiving a thorough grounding in the structure of English sounds, words and sentences

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • English
  • English Language
  • Teaching
  • International
  • Employability
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Course programme

Example structure
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Please note that in your second year you choose between Child Language Acquisition and Language Disorders and Second Language Learning. You do not take both.
Year 0
An Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century
Major Writers in English Literature
Political and Social Theory From Plato to the Present Day
Western Philosophy: Fundamental Questions, Major Thinkers
Academic Skills
Year 1
Sounds
Skills for Linguists
Language Variation and Change
Psycholinguistics I - Language Development
Psycholinguistics II - Language Processing
Words and Sentences
Discovering Psychology: The Science Behind Human Behaviour (optional)
Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Year 2
Phonology
Analysing the structure of English
Language Development throughout the Lifespan
Research methods for language and linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Multilingualism (optional)
Phonetics (optional)
Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Final year
Varieties of English (optional)
Phonological Development (optional)
Sentence Processing (optional)
CA I - Conversation and Social Interaction (optional)
Project: Linguistics (optional)
Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Teaching
Teaching is arranged to allow freedom in how you organise your learning experience
Examples of practical work include digitally recording dialect speakers in a small traditional fishing community, or scouring digitised child language databanks
Other teaching methods include lectures, demonstrations and learning by teaching others
Assessment
You are assessed through a combination of coursework (assignments, essays and tests) and end-of-year examinations
Weighted 50% coursework and 50% examinations
In your final year, you conduct research on a topic chosen with one of your lecturers, for your dissertation. Your lecturer supports you throughout your project and is an expert in the research area.
Other methods of assessment include graded participation in seminars and classes, presentations, or group work
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Additional information

With such a wide scope of study, you gain a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between our language and our minds, with a special focus on the process of acquisition and the prevalence of disorders Our expert staff We have some of the best teachers across the University in our International Academy, all of whom have strong subject backgrounds and are highly skilled in their areas Our staff are internationally recognised for their language research (REF 2014) Their books dominate the reading lists at other universities We maintain excellent student-staff ratios, and we integrate language learning with linguistics wherever there is synergy In theoretical linguistics, Doug Arnold, Bob Borsley, Louisa Sadler, and Mike Jones work on the structure of sentences, focusing on English and other languages; Andrew Spencer investigates how complex words are created; and Nancy Kula and Wyn Johnson work on sound structure In sociolinguistics, Peter Patrick, Rebecca Clift, Enam Al Wer and Vineeta Chand all work on different aspects of how language varies, and investigating which factors affect successful conversation Peter is also involved in language rights, and offers expert opinions in asylum cases where language is used to determine origin In applied linguistics, Florence Myles, Monika Schmid, Sophia Skoufaki, Karen Roehr-Brackin, Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez, and Roger Hawkins focus on the learning of second and further languages, whilst Julian Good, and Christina Gkonou focus on issues to do with the classroom teaching of English as a foreign language In psycholinguistics, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Claire delle Luche and Fang Liu use experimental techniques to understand how children learn language, how adults process language, and what happens when language ability is impaired by brain disorders Specialist facilities By studying within our International Academy for your foundation year, you will have access to all of the facilities that the...

BA English Language and Language Development (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

£ 9,250 + VAT