STRUCTURE OVERVIEW
Core programme content
Required:- Language, identity and culture
- 'Researching linguistic diversity', AND / OR
- Digital methods for text and discourse analysis'
Indicative non-core content
Optional:
- Cultures in grammar
- Psycholinguistics
- Language contact, bilingualism and black englishes
- World languages and linguistic typology
- Translation theory
- Linguistic approaches to narrative analysis
- Linguistic analysis of Modern Greek narrative
- Digital analysis of literature
- Language and power
- Medical discourses
- Language practices in multiethnic and multilingual classrooms
- Second language acquisition
- English for academic purposes
- English for speakers of other languages
FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT
In order to gain the MA, you must successfully complete modules equivalent to a total of 180 credits, divided between taught modules (totalling 120 credits) and a supervised research dissertation (60 credits).
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dominique Borel
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September
Location
Strand and Waterloo Campuses
Student destinations
Doctoral research, language-related professions, eg teaching, translation and interpreting, journalism, publishing and international relations.
Year of entry 2012
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