Skip to Main Content

Contents

Subject Overview

You can address issues such as multilingualism, the learning of foreign languages and the assessment of language proficiency.

Knowledge and Skills

Research opportunities
We welcome PhD research proposals in areas such as:
- Creativity in language learning and teaching
- Affect and language learning
- Materials development for language teaching
- Language teacher education
- Language pedagogy and assessment
- Teacher cognition
- Sociolinguistics
- Discourse analysis
- English for specific purposes
- English for academic purposes
- Teacher identity
- Academic writing
- Corpus-based linguistic studies
- Language policy and planning
- Narrative inquiry

Potential Careers

Our PhD graduates are successful in a wide range of fields and careers, as well as the traditional academic research career path. The PhD gives you extensive specialist and transferable skills, which are sought after in many sectors, including industry and government, and can even help you to develop entrepreneurship skills to run your own start up. With focused development opportunities available throughout your PhD study, and dedicated postgraduate career advice, we can help you to explore and meet your own career goals, no matter what direction you take.

Schedule

Plan Schedules