English and TESOL BA (Hons)

This module allows you to explore in more depth the principles underlying the teaching of English as a second language and provides opportunities for you to apply those principles in weekly Teaching Practice sessions. You will also observe lessons taught by experienced teachers.

Compulsory

This module complements Principles and Practice of TESOL 1 and allows you to further develop your competencies as teachers of English. While continuing to study the principles underlying the teaching of English as a second language, the emphasis will be on delivering increasingly effective lessons in weekly Teaching Practice sessions.

Compulsory

The aim of this module is to introduce you to the fundamental concepts in the study of language as a social phenomenon. Topics covered include: language variation in regional and social dialects; notions of identity incorporating gender, ethnicity and age; social functions of languages and varieties; and the ways in which ideologies, cultural ways, speaking and social attitudes affect patterns of language use and their evaluation within institutions.

Compulsory

This module aims to train you in the use of online tools for language teaching, and to develop your understanding of how effective practice is informed and underpinned by relevant theories of learning, second language acquisition, and pedagogy.

Compulsory

This module introduces key issues relevant to the study of language used in digital contexts. Indicative topics include: language attitudes and ideologies towards new media practices; online identities and communities; digital narratives; the language of blogs and wikis; micro-blogging practices and the meaning of hashtags; impoliteness and conflict in digital settings.

Compulsory

In its broadest sense, stylistics is a field of study in which linguistic theories are used to identify and describe the distinguishing features (or style) of a text. The aim of this module is to equip you with an understanding of the linguistic models and analytic techniques that can be used to describe, analyse and interpret a range of literary, as well as non-literary, texts. 

Compulsory

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during your programme. A placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during your programme. A work/study placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module provides an opportunity to explore teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP). You will cover the historical background and principles underpinning the development of ESP including the concept of Needs Analysis. This module will also give you an introduction to different aspects of ESP including teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Occupational Purposes (EOP), Business English, and ESOL.

Compulsory

This module aims to introduce the key principles underlying teaching young language learners including the needs and expectations of learners, teaching approaches and methodologies and materials. You will have the chance to select and develop materials for specific cohorts of learners and be able to reflect on their learning in your chosen context.

Compulsory

The aim of this module is to develop your awareness of the psycholinguistic processes of language storage and retrieval. It will also look at how artificial intelligence in machines simulates human linguistic behaviour and question whether this linguistic behaviour in machines constitutes true intelligence.

Optional

This module takes a sociolinguistic approach to the study of language and globalisation. Topics include language attitudes and ideologies, bilingualism and multilingualism, identities in a globalised world, the politics of English as a lingua franca, language globalisation and social media, tourism discourse, food and lifestyle discourses, linguistic landscapes and workplace communication.

Optional

The aim of the module is to enable you to take a critical perspective with regard to language, and to recognise how language is instrumental in constructing an ideologically framed view of reality – cultural, social and political. You will, through your examination and deconstruction of texts, aim to acquire the tools to unravel the complexities inherent in language as it is used as a medium of communication and as a means of giving definition to experience.

Optional

This module surveys Gothic literature and cultural production, from its 18th-century origins to the film, television and video games of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You will gain a lively appreciation of the Gothic’s enduring relevance in times of climate crisis, geopolitical unrest, and rapid technological change. 

Optional

This module provides an opportunity for you to exercise independent learning and research skills in the final semester of your degree. You will be able to conceive, plan and carry out an individual programme of discipline-specific research under the supervision of a member of staff, leading to the ultimate submission of a final project in the form of a dissertation, portfolio, or artefact, as appropriate.  

Optional