Applied Linguistics

The program in Applied Linguistics will provide students with a solid foundation for defining and resolving questions related to the nature of language, how it is used in educational and naturalistic contexts and how it is taught, learned, and evaluated. The program emphasizes study in the following:

• Acquisitional pragmatics
  
• Cross-cultural pragmatics
  
• Discourse analysis
• Foreign language pedagogy
  
• Interlanguage analysis
  
• Phonetics/phonology
  
• Second language acquisition
  
• Second language literacy
  
• Semantics
  
• Sociolinguistics
  
• Syntax
  
• Technology in applied linguistics
  
• Testing and assessment