English Language - BA (Hons)

Our BA English Language course is ideal for analytical minds who want to delve into the science of language - an everyday phenomenon which impacts our lives on an individual and a global scale. English Language covers the history of the English language and the variation between English dialects in the UK and further afield. You will acquire the skills required for analytical language study alongside the means to apply those skills to the study of historical and present-day English. In addition, you will practise key transferable skills, such as essay writing and how to give a presentation. English Language at The University of Manchester is unrivalled in its breadth of subject areas and theoretical approaches. Our strengths include, among others, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and child language acquisition, forensic linguistics, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and quantitative corpus-based approaches. You will be encouraged to take an active role in funded teaching-enhancement projects. For example, some of our students have developed an online atlas of dialect variation in the UK and storyboards for the use in fieldwork.

The University welcomes applications from appropriately qualified candidates across the world. We value global talent and are proud to receive applications from a wide range of educational systems and national backgrounds. Because international qualifications vary widely, it is not possible for us to list entry information for every country on this page. If your country is not listed below, please contact us and a member of our team will be happy to assist you: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/international/contact-international-team/