YSJ Awards 2022 Course team of the Year: BSL and Deaf Studies Dai and Amanda celebrating their YSJ award for Course Team of the Year, which they collected on behalf of the team. Our BSL and Deaf Studies team also includes Kevin Buckle.
Welcome everyone! I am Indu Meddegama, the Programme Lead for the Taught MA students in Languages and Linguistics. On this page, I have included introductory videos to your Semester 1 modules: Language Myths and Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis delivered by Professor Chris Hall and Professor Helen Sauntson respectively. I Read more
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Hello and welcome! My name is Dr Mattia Zingaretti. I am Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and the Programme Lead for Linguistics and TESOL BA Degrees. I wanted to welcome you to York St John University, the School of Education, Language and Psychology, and your chosen degree programme. Read more
This module explores the ways in which language can function as an indicator of a range of social and cultural identities, and how language plays an active role in constructing identities. The module takes an interdisciplinary approach to analysing the relationship between language, identity and culture. It allows you to Read more
This module is designed to give you a thorough grounding in the main areas of feminist and queer linguistic enquiry. Language, gender and sexuality is a diverse and often controversial field, which gives rise to varying and sometimes contradictory theories and methods of analysis. You will learn about a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Read more
In this module you will be looking in depth at the grammatical and phonological resources of learners and users of English as a second language. For grammar, you’ll be using data from Chris Hall’s research on how the first language influences the second, and on successful L2 user grammars. Chris Read more
People have some very entrenched and often unexamined beliefs about language, and these beliefs often underpin social injustices in language learning, teaching, and use. In this module we interrogate some of these myths from the perspective of Applied Linguistics, using my co-authored introduction to the field as a basis. We’ll Read more