Program Overview

Teaching English in a Global Context Linguistics Degree

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Arts with a major in linguistics ensures that you receive the proper training and knowledge to have a successful career in the field of linguistics. The curriculum allows you to immerse yourself in the study of language and to understand its structure, use, design and application.

Program Type

• Major

Format

• On Campus

Estimated Time to Complete

• 4 years

Credit Hours

• 120

Program Description

Explore the dynamics of human language and empower yourself to teach English anywhere in the world. The Department of Linguistics, in close collaboration with Library and Information Science, Learning Technologies and Computer Science, offers a collaborative environment for developing innovative curricula that incorporate research on language with database design and management, text mining, computational and quantitative methods in linguistics and natural language processing.

Why Earn a Teaching English in a Global Context Linguistics Degree?

• The unifying philosophy for the linguists is that a broad typological linguistic sample is necessary to understand the extent and limits of human language structure, learning and use.
• In order to achieve this understanding, it is necessary to use the highest quality of linguistic data, i.e., corpora of naturally occurring language in human interactions.
• The curriculum allows you to immerse yourself in the study of language to understand its structure, use, design and application.

Marketable Skills

• Data management and database structure
• Analyze and annotate language data
• Project planning and implementation
• Analytic capabilities
• Creation/computational analysis of language corpora

Research Areas

• Computational linguistics
• Language acquisition and teaching
• Language documentation
• Language variation and change
• South Asian languages

Teaching English in a Global Context Linguistics Degree Highlights

• The Linguistics Colloquium Series will give you an opportunity to meet top researchers in the field and gain new perspectives.
• You can also discuss the latest trends in language as a member of the Student Linguistics Association of North Texas (SLANT).
• The department is a pioneer in its area because of our interdisciplinary approach to the study of language.
• Students will learn in-demand software and programming skills with state-of-the-art technology.
• Students have flexible degree programs and can also choose a concentration in Teaching English in the Global Context or Computational Linguistics.

What Can You Do With a Teaching English in a Global Context Linguistics Degree?

• Artificial intelligence
• Computer speech recognition
• Computer text recognition
• Education and educational research
• Preserving native languages
• Teaching English as a Second Language
• Translation/interpretation

Teaching English in a Global Context Linguistics Degree Courses You Could Take

Acquisition of English as a Second Language (3 hrs)

• Study of language acquisition, development, production and comprehension focusing on the application of current research findings to the context of learning and teaching English as a second language.

Teaching English as a Second Language (3 hrs)

• Theory and method of teaching English as a second language. Study of major approaches with specific attention to methods of teaching, listening, speaking, reading and writing.

World Englishes (3 hrs)

• Examines the historical and political reasons for the spread of English around the world and the creation of new varieties of English. Unique formal structures, pragmatic and conversational principles of interaction used in local and global print and broadcast media, creative fiction, and technical writing. Includes a survey of how English is taught around the world.

The Politics of Language (3 hrs)

• Study of the inevitable interactions between language use, and the displays and distribution of power among speakers. Course focuses on what constitutes political speech - be it the in the privacy of individuals’ interactions, or in the more public arena of institutions, or group management. It is in the context of the tripartite sub-classification of power, politics, and structure that the course investigates the role of language in producing and reinforcing unequal relations of dominance in society.

Migration and Language Contact (3 hrs)

• Study of the linguistic and social patterns resulting from language contact due to migration. Topics include lexical and structural borrowing, code-switching and formation of pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages.

Structure of Modern English (3 hrs)

• Modern English grammar, morphology and syntax; principles of analysis and various theories of English structure; relationship between linguistic structure, rhetorical pattern and literary style.