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Swansea University - Singleton Park
Swansea, Wales, UK
Applied Linguistics by Research MA
Admission Requirements
**Academic Requirement at Undergraduate level for students with British Qualifications stay the same regardless of the Student's country of residence.
Personal statement: Should be approximately 500 words long.
Two references are required.Two references for the applicant's academic and professional ability must be supplied.
Resume/CV
Minimum 1 Year relevant work experience
Research proposal: A short and coherent summary of the applicant's intended research project. The proposal will be used by the University to assess the quality and originality of the research idea, as well as its overall feasibility as a research project. It’s also an opportunity for a potential supervisor to assess the applicant's suitability for study
About The Program
About The University
Application Deadline
Start Date
Sep
6.5 (Min Reading: 6.5, Min Writing: 6.5, Min Listening: 6.5, Min Speaking: 6.5)
Minimimum Academic Requirement
English Proficiency Requirement
Other Requirements
Program Level
Average Decision Time
None
Application Fees
Yearly Tuition Fees
15,250
Masters
Program Duration
1 Year
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Swansea University offers a range of postgraduate scholarships for international students at various points throughout the year.
Swansea University offers a number of awards for students pursuing PhD, MPhil, MRes or Master's by Research studies.
Individual adverts and detail informations are given in the University website.
An MA by Research in Applied Linguistics enables you to undertake a project led by your own passions and interests, without committing to a full PhD.
Your project will take one year full-time or two years part-time.
Our staff are members of the Language Research Centre (LRC) and we are especially interested in projects concerning:
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Cognitive Psychology of Language
Discourse analysis
Lexical Studies
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
second language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
vocabulary learning
This programme is suitable preparation for doctoral work, but a proven ability to conduct independent research in the field will also improve your employment prospects in English language teaching and outside academia in the media, publishing or government bodies.
Your project will be agreed in consultation with supervisors and we recommend these discussions are started before applying, to help draw up an initial proposal.
You will be closely supervised by two experienced academics with relevant expertise throughout the course of the project. This involves fortnightly meetings in your first term and meetings at regular agreed intervals thereafter.
As a research student, you are required to attend skills and training courses. You deliver presentations to research students and staff at departmental seminars, at the annual departmental postgraduate symposium in June, and at the College of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate conference.
The Research Excellence Framework 2014 reported on postgraduate research in the department.
The environment in the Department is ‘conducive to producing research of mostly at least internationally excellent and at its best world-leading quality’
‘Arrangements for postgraduates were deemed of world-leading quality’
‘There is clear evidence of the development of a research culture into which research students are fully integrated’
‘There are excellent arrangements for support, training and employability’.
Swansea University has been at the cutting edge of research and innovation since 1920. We have a long history of working with business and industry but today our world-class research has a much wider impact across the health, wealth, culture, and well-being of our society.
The University's foundation stone was laid by King George V on 19 July 1920 and 89 students (including eight female students) enrolled that same year. By September 1939, there were 65 staff and 485 students.
In 1947 there were just two permanent buildings on campus: Singleton Abbey and the library. The Principal, J S Fulton, recognised the need to expand the estate and had a vision of a self-contained community, with residential, social and academic facilities on a single site. His vision was to become the first university campus in the UK.
By 1960 a large-scale development programme was underway that would see the construction of new halls of residence, the Maths and Science Tower, and College House (later renamed Fulton House). The 1960s also saw the development of the "finite element method" by Professor Olek Zienkiewicz. His technique revolutionised the design and engineering of manufactured products, and Swansea was starting to stake its claim as an institution that demanded to be taken seriously.
Work began on the student village at Hendrefoelan in 1971, the South Wales Miners' Library was established in 1973 and the Taliesin Arts Centre opened on campus in 1984. The Regional Schools of Nursing transferred to Swansea in 1992, and the College of Medicine opened in 2001. Technium Digital was completed in 2005 and, barely two years later, the University opened its Institute of Life Science, which commercialises the results of research undertaken in the Swansea University Medical School. Work commenced on a second Institute of Life Science in 2009.
BANGLADESH
Successful completion of a relevant Bachelors degree from a recognised institution with a minimum of a Second Class Lower Division: Bachelor 4 year from BUET: CGPA 2.75 or B- or 55%; MBBS/BDS/Bachelor 4 year /DVM: CGPA 3.0 or B or 60 awarded
INDIA
Successful completion of a relevant Bachelors degree from a recognised institution with a minimum of a Second Class Lower Division:
60%; or CGPA 6.7 (10 point system); or CGPA 6 (7 point system); or CGPA 3 (4 point system) - including Standard XII in English - 70% or above (or equivalent).
(55% or CGPA 6.1 (10 point system) or CGPA 5.5 (7 point system) or CGPA 2.67 (4 point system) for institutes of national importance/LLB) including Standard XII in English - 70% or above (or equivalent).
NEPAL
Successful completion of a relevant Bachelors degree from a recognised institution with a minimum of a Second Class Lower Division or equivalent: Bachelor Special/Professional: Second Class Lower Division or CGPA 3.0 or Grade B | Bachelor General: Second Class Upper Division or CGPA 3.3 or Grade B+
PAKISTAN
A minimum of a second class (with 55% average) 2:2 honours degree, ideally in a relative A minimum of a second class (with 55% average) 2:2 honours degree, ideally in a relevant discipline & *IB: standard level 5; higher level 4
*GCSE/IGCSE English C
*A Level English C
UK IGCSE or A-LEVELS