Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

How do people learn languages? How does multilingualism shape our lives and inform our identities? And how can we respond to linguistic diversity in education, organizations and society?

Price

from €2,771

Level

Academic master

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Course

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Description

The Master's in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism explores these and many other related questions by approaching language from the perspective of both the individual and society. You will study how people learn, develop and use additional languages, while also examining the social, educational, cultural and policy dimensions of multilingualism. In doing so, you will learn to analyse language-related questions from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and develop the research skills to investigate them yourself. Based in the north of the Netherlands, the programme combines our staff's expertise across second language development, multilingualism, language teaching and assessment, cognition, social interaction, minority and heritage language education, and language policy.The programme offers two routes: Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism. The programme's broad perspective allows you to develop your own area of specialism while gaining a solid foundation in research methodologies. Whether you are interested in language learning, multilingual education, linguistic diversity, language policy or language research, this programme gives you the knowledge an