Course Overview
Classic research degrees can be undertaken full-time, part-time, or by a combination of both and you can also register as studying away from Lancaster for part of your studies.
Proposals are accepted in a wide range of topics including: language and media linguistic description and theory, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, language learning and teaching, bilingualism, gender and language, literacy, stylistics, language testing, and pragmatics.
Students will be matched with staff interests to provide strong supervision relationships.
Key Information
Director of Studies: Dr Mark Sebba
Entry Requirements: MA in linguistics or a related field and a viable research proposal
IELTS: 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in listening and speaking and at least 6.5 in reading and writing) or equivalent
Assessment: Original research and thesis
Funding: All applicants should consult www.lancs.ac.uk/pgfunding/
Entry Requirements: MA in linguistics or a related field and a viable research proposal
IELTS: 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in listening and speaking and at least 6.5 in reading and writing) or equivalent
Assessment: Original research and thesis
Funding: All applicants should consult www.lancs.ac.uk/pgfunding/
Fees: View details of our current Postgraduate Research fees or Postgraduate Taught fees.
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- Discourse Studies : MA
- English Language (by distance) : MA
- English Language and Literary Studies : MA
- Language Testing (by Distance) : MA
- Language and Linguistics : MA
- Linguistics : MPhil/PhD
- TESOL (Hong Kong) : MA
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language : MA
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) : MA
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages by Distance : MA