Postgraduate Prospectus

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Staff and their research interests
Enam Al-Wer, BA Jordan, MLing
Manchester, PhD Essex (Teaching Fellow)
Sociolinguistics, particularly language
variation and change (especially of
Arabic); dialect/language contact;
multilingualism; minority languages
Doug Arnold, MA Cambridge, MA PhD
Essex (Senior Lecturer and Head of
Department)
Formal syntax and semantics;
computational linguistics
Bob Borsley, BA Wales, PhD Edinburgh
(Professor)
Syntactic theory (especially HPSG); the
syntax of English, Welsh and Polish
Vineeta Chand, BA Berkeley, MA PhD
Davis (Lecturer)
Language variation and change; language
ideologies; language and globalisation;
post-colonial world Englishes; clinical
sociolinguistics
Rebecca Clift, BA Durham, MPhil PhD
Cambridge (Senior Lecturer)
Conversation analysis; the relationship of
grammar and interaction; reported speech;
narrative in talk
Sonja Eisenbeiss, MA Köln, PhD
Düsseldorf (Lecturer)
Psycholinguistics; first language
acquisition by normally developing children
and children with specific language
impairment; morphological theory;
argument structure and lexical semantics
Helen Emery, BA Stirling, MA Reading,
PhD Cardiff (Senior Teaching Fellow)
ELT; literacy development in a second
language; child language acquisition;
teaching young learners
Adela Gánem Gutiérrez, BA Mexico,
MA PhD Southampton (Lecturer)
SLA connections of several focal areas
in current ELT; computer-assisted
language learning; learner autonomy; the
role of interaction in language learning;
task-based learning; the role of feedback
and scaffolding in the classroom
Julian Good, BA Stirling, PhD Essex,
CTEFLA (Lecturer)
Classroom dynamics and teacher decision
making; materials analysis; qualitative
research; the links between ELT and
maintaining language diversity
Nigel Harwood, BA Hull, MA Lancaster,
PhD Kent (Senior Lecturer)
Academic writing; English for academic
purposes; corpus-based studies in ELT
and applied linguistics; materials design
Roger Hawkins, MA Edinburgh, PhD
Cambridge (Professor)
Second language acquisition (from the
perspective of universal grammar)
Wyn Johnson, BA MA PhD Essex
(Senior Lecturer)
Theoretical and descriptive phonology;
acquisition of phonology
Mike Jones, BA Sussex, LesL Doct Paris
(Reader)
Syntactic theory and description,
particularly in relation to English and the
Romance languages
Nancy Kula, BA Lusaka, MA SOAS,
PhD Leiden (Lecturer)
Phonology; acquisition of phonology
MA Language Testing and Programme
Evaluation•
On this course, you investigate current
theories and developments in language
testing within contemporary applied
linguistics, which provides you with a
grounding in the design and evaluation
of language tests and programmes. Our
core topics include: language testing,
programme evaluation and research
methods, and there is a wide variety
of optional modules.
MA Linguistics•
This course provides you with a formal and
empirical grounding in all core areas of
linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax
and semantics. We review and evaluate
the major theoretical approaches in these
disciplines. Our optional modules are in
the related fields of descriptive linguistics,
language acquisition, psycholinguistics,
neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics and
computational linguistics.
MA Linguistic Studies•
This course offers you postgraduate-level
training in linguistics with a wide choice
of modules from which to put together a
programme suited to your individual needs.
You may take MA Linguistics Studies
as our other courses but also on a credit
accumulation basis over a period of up
to five years, and may choose any of
our modules. This course is particularly
appropriate if you need to study on a
part-time basis and wish to fit your course
choices in with your existing commitments.
MA Management and Professional
Communication•
We offer this course in collaboration with
Essex Business School, so you can draw
upon our research and practice in both
applied linguistics and management
studies. You are introduced to a range
of management theories while also
provided with a number of different
approaches to analyse workplace
discourse and communication, such
as conversational analysis and analysis
of computer corpora. You also research
workplace settings and analyse the
discourse these settings produce both
quantitatively and qualitatively. Our core
topics include: intercultural pragmatics,
English for specific purposes, culture and
communication, and discourse analysis.
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