PhD Applied Linguistics

A PhD or MPhil in Applied Linguistics enables you to undertake a substantial project led by your own passions and interests.

The PhD takes three years full-time or six years part-time, and the MPhil takes two years full-time or four years part-time.

You will submit a thesis up to 90,000 words for PhD assessment and 60,000 words for MPhil assessment, demonstrating original research with a significant contribution to the subject area. This is followed by an oral examination of the thesis (a viva voce examination, or viva)

Our staff are members of the Language Research Centre (LRC) and we are especially interested in projects concerning:

• Computer Assisted Language Learning
• Cognitive Psychology of Language
• Discourse analysis
• Lexical Studies
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Second language acquisition
• Sociolinguistics
• Vocabulary learning

Your project will be agreed in consultation with supervisors and we recommend these discussions are started before applying, to help draw up an initial proposal.