BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics Bachelor's degree at the University of Reading

To understand how language operates in social groups, this will provide you with a basis for further in-depth study in English language and linguistics.

To support your transition to university study, you'll focus on developing your reading, writing, critical thinking, presentation, library, and technology skills in relation to the study of English language and linguistics.

Examine language as a communication system considering sound production and perception, grammatical categorisation, and meaning. You'll gain the knowledge and skills to analyse written and spoken data.

Learn how languages spread across the world and explore debates around linguistic imperialism, political dimensions of language use, and language policies. You'll consider the effects of technology and migration on the linguistics of regions worldwide.

Investigate the origin, development, and characteristics of human language. You'll focus on topics such as language endangerment, bilingualism and multilingualism in childhood, and non-verbal communication. You'll also explore different linguistics aspects of modern European Languages.

Critically interpret film texts and discover the conventions of fiction and non-fiction cinema. Explore cinema as a diverse, global and transcultural medium, focusing on historical and cultural contexts.

Study the history of the Roman Republic from the 2nd century BC to the late 1st century BC. You will approach and investigate a range of ancient sources in order to offer their own interpretation, draw links to the modern world, and enquire the relevance of Roman antiquity to the issues faced by modern societies.

Beginning with Beat poetry and the counterculture of the 1950s and finishing with fiction responding to the Black Lives Matter movement and the challenges of social media in the twenty-first century, on this module you will be studying different perspectives on American culture in work by African-American, Native American (Indian) and white American creatives operating in a variety of genres and sub-genres: poetry, short stories, YA fiction, science fiction, drama, songs, films, war reportage, a

Study the experiences of migrant groups in Britain from the early modern period to the early twenty-first century. You will consider the different reasons for migration from one part of the world to another, focusing in particular on forms of persecution and economic motivations.

Study the current thinking on translation by exploring some specific case studies. You will assess the relationship between translation practice and theory, and will place this relationship within the cultural, intellectual and political contexts of their time.

Discover key methodological frameworks and analytical approaches to describe language and apply your knowledge to a variety of social, cultural, and political contexts.

Develop transcription skills and knowledge of phonological systems. You'll gain a basis for applied work in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, child language development, and corpus-based approaches to language analysis.

Understand how sociolinguistic theories can help to solve practical issues such as discrimination, inequality, and political polarization. This will equip you with analytical tools that you can apply to everyday situations.

This module examines how digital media and AI are reshaping language use in everyday life. Students will learn to critically analyse real online communication using tools and theories from sociolinguistics, media studies, and discourse analysis, while gaining practical skills in digital content creation and collaborative communication.

Critically examine how the mind acquires, stores and processes language by drawing on psychology, linguistic analysis, speech science and neuroscience. You'll apply these theories to practice and follow methodologies in psycholinguistic research.

Address real-world problems such as gender-based discrimination and inequalities in different settings. You'll analyse sociolinguistic research on gendered language over the last 40 years.

You'll use software to analyse and understand the acoustic and physical features of speech, helping you to develop high-level auditory phonetic analysis skills.

Explore important aspects of current language teaching methodology, including lesson planning, promoting and sustaining interaction, and promoting strategies for learning. You'll examine which factors affect language learning and acquire an understanding of issues in relation to learning and teaching theory and practice.

Explore post-war Britain and how social and political change was reflected in and/or driven by youth culture. The period saw the post-war settlement give way to the post-consensual politics of Thatcherism. It saw dramatic social and economic change, transformative technological advances and the seemingly perennial shadow of Cold War.

This multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural, comparative module examines modern ideas of nation, national identity, the nation-state and nationalism, and how they have shaped modern Europe and the rest of the world from the 18th century to the present day.

Investigate the use of language in professional contexts, which will provide you with increased awareness of the challenges and opportunities faced by graduates entering the global workforce.

Apply your knowledge, enhance your employability and increase your confidence and communication skills by undertaking a professional placement. Opportunities could include designing promotional material, social media marketing or as a research assistant.

Selecting a topic within English language and linguistics, you'll design and implement a study, read widely on your chosen subject, and critically evaluate different theories to produce an extensive piece of original research.

Discover the developmental stages of language and tools to collect, encode, and analyse child language data. You'll use a computer program for child data analysis in your own research project on child language development.

Explore key concepts of Corpus Linguistics including frequency, collocation, concordances and keywords. It aims to provide students with a basic training in uses of specialist software programmes for the analysis of language in large or specialised corpora applying a set of quantitative (statistical) and qualitative methods.

Examine bilingualism from societal and cognitive viewpoints, considering related research questions and analysis to address practical implications for education and language policy.

Explore how people of different nationalities communicate with each other face-to-face and by digital means, considering what creates miscommunication and successful communication. This will help prepare you for work in diverse corporate and academic settings.

Explore current and effective methods of teaching English as a second/foreign language. Focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing, you'll put to practice the academic and pedagogic ideas underpinning language teaching.

Explore a range of speech and language conditions and disorders found in adults and children; to relate these findings to their knowledge of linguistics and psychology about normal speech and language processing. You'll learn about speech and language therapist's role in assessments and management various conditions and different settings.

Explore the linguistic means by which a whole range of persuasive texts can be analysed. You will also be considering the use of language as a powerful tool in itself, than can construe reality, preserve or challenge power, harm and discriminate individuals and social groups, enhance social conflict or foster social cohesion.