English Language with French, Mandarin or Spanish BA (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

English Language with French, Mandarin or Spanish is a stimulating, thought-provoking course designed to make you analyse and reflect on how language in general, and English in particular, functions in the world today. You will examine the origins of English and how it could evolve in an era of global change and technological innovation. You will discover how the importance and impact of language in a variety of contexts, both as a complex system for embodying ideas, emotions and beliefs, and as a means of influencing, persuading and moving others.

You will be able to develop a set of linguistic and analytical skills which will help you become a highly effective communicator. This is a course about how language shapes your world – by learning and understanding how language works, we can help the world open up to you.

As part of this joint honours course you can develop your written and spoken communication skills in two of the world's most powerful languages. English is currently the world's most widely spoken language, and you will be able to study it in combination with French (an official language in 32 countries, and with a projected growth to 750 million people worldwide by 2050), Mandarin Chinese (currently the language with the greatest number of native speakers) or Spanish (more than 470 million speakers worldwide including in Central and South American countries and the USA).

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Location

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Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

104 points from at least 2 A'levels
BTEC Extended Diploma DMM
International Baccalaureate: 24+ Points
GCSEs - Five GCSEs at grade A*-C including English Language or Literature at grade C or above or equivalent.

Key features

You will analyse the structure and mechanics of how language functions with a wider study of the cultural and social aspects of language and communication.
You will take two 15 credit modules per study level in your chosen language, which will equate to three hours of language per week. During your weekly language workshop, you will develop your language skills through the study of the country, the society, the culture and the people.
You’ll be taught by experienced practitioners who, thanks to their experience, can ensure that the skills you develop are relevant to professional practice and the sector.
Visiting lecturers have included world-renowned expert of forensic linguistics Dr John Olsson, while organised trips have seen students visit professional events such as the London Language Show.
A final-year placement module gives you the opportunity to put your research, reasoning and communication skills into practice in a workplace environment.
Our specificity is to cater for any language experience, meaning you will study at a level and pace that really suits you and your needs. Learning a new language with us will therefore not only provide you with linguistic skills, but will also enhance skills in your native language and develop your presentation, written and critical skills.
Enhance your employability through a recognised competence in a foreign language, distinguishing you from other graduates and significantly improving your career prospects.
Broaden your horizons through our international experience programme  DMU Global, which offers opportunities for you to gain experience of a different culture, practise your language skills with native speakers and extend your global outlook to understand how English functions in an international context.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • Writing
  • Communication Training
  • Mandarin
  • Works
  • Teaching
  • English
  • Grammar and Linguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Histories of Language

Course programme

First year
  • Words in Action: An Introduction to Grammar and Linguistics
  • Evolving Language: An Introduction to the Histories of Language
  • Topics in Linguistics
  • Foundations in English Language Teaching for International Learners
  • Approaches to Reading and Writing
  • Introduction to the Novel
  • Exploring Creative Writing
  • Modern Language 1 (Basic User of Independent User depending on entry language level)
Second year
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Grammar: Analysing linguistic structure
  • Semantics: Analysing linguistic meaning
  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Research Methods for Linguists
  • Language in Context
  • English Language in UK Schools
  • Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
  • Varieties of English Language Teaching for International Learners
  • Text Technologies
  • Writing Place
  • Modern Language 2
Third year
  • English Language Dissertation
  • English Language in the Workplace (Placement Module)
  • Language Acquisition
  • Language, Mind and Culture
  • Powerful Language: An Introduction To Rhetoric
  • Perception, Persuasion, Power: Communication and Control
  • English Language for Specific and Professional Purposes
  • Textual Studies Using Computers
  • Professional Writing Skills
  • Modern Language 3
  • Language, Gender and Sexuality
  • Data From Texts: Corpus Linguistics
Teaching and assessments

Overview

This degree aims to make you a highly skilled, articulate communicator in not one, but two languages. It will develop your ability to analyse and understand how written and spoken language work, and also to operate effectively in a language and in cultures which are not your own.

From your first year, you will be combining theoretical knowledge and practical skills to help you understand how language works, and acquiring a knowledge of the history and cultures where English and your chosen modern foreign language are used. Later years offer a range of theoretical and reality-based courses, a final year work placement module and the opportunity to study material such as propaganda and interrogation, pragmatics, the mechanics of meaning, psycholinguistics and psychotherapy. This degree is centred on language and communication, and the acquisition of tools and theories that will help you, and other people, communicate more effectively.

Our staff are experts in fields as diverse as online communication and identity, language and globalisation, semantics and meaning, and propaganda and counter-terrorism. You will benefit from a range of visiting speakers throughout the course. Previous guest lecturers have included world experts in subjects such as forensic linguistics.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 25 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Additional information

UCAS course code: 
English Language with Mandarin BA (Hons) Q311
English Language with French BA (Hons) Q310
English Language with Spanish BA (Hons) Q3R2

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