English Language and English Language Teaching (including Year Abroad)

Description

Our BA English Language and English Language Teaching (including Year Abroad) will address issues like: do you want to apply your knowledge of the English language to the teaching of English? What do you need to know about the language to teach it? What do you need to know about language teaching and learning? How are English sentences structured? How are English words formed? How many words do you know? How many sounds does English have? Do English children and foreign learners learn the language in the same way? What is the value of error correction? What do English teachers do in the classroom? What roles do they adopt? How do the roles of teachers and learners change according to the background context? Although it is aimed primarily at those who want to teach English to non-native speakers of English, this principles of this course also apply to the teaching of English as a mother tongue and it has a slightly greater bias towards English linguistics than our BA TEFL. You spend your third year abroad.

Your first year offers foundation modules in all our Departments main areas of specialisation, thus offering you maximum flexibility just in case you decide to switch courses later. Your second year includes modules in The Structure of English, Second Language Learning, and Methodology of TEFL, along with any other second year linguistics module. Your third year offers maximum flexibility, having only one compulsory module, Directed Classroom Observation. Our BA English Language and English Language Teaching offers you the opportunity to learn more about the structure of sounds, words and sentences in English, and to learn about contemporary techniques and materials used to teach English to non-native speakers of English.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our courses are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you usually take four or five modules that include pre-requisite(s) for your course but, in many cases, mean you can try subjects you have not come across before. If you are taking a humanities or social science, then you have the greatest choice, as most of our first-year modules do not assume any specialist knowledge.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available. We offer a range of optional modules in your second- and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project, an individual piece of research on a topic that interests you.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Foundations of Sociolinguistics;
Foundations of Linguistics;
Foundations of Teaching English as a Foreign Language; and
one linguistics, language or social science option

Year 2

Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language;
Second Language Learning; and
two English language options

Year 3

Year abroad

Year 4

Three English language teaching options; and
one linguistics, language, social science or project option

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.