Master in Science in Centre for Language and Communication Studies

The School's Centre for Language and Communication Studies, founded in 1979, is a centre of research in linguistics, applied linguistics, phonetics and speech science, and provides teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Centre offers four integrated taught Masters Degrees in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching and Speech and Language Processing.

The Centre offers many opportunities for doctoral research. In linguistics students have conducted research on a diverse range of languages and in fields including language acquisition, computational linguistics (in collaboration with the School of Computer Science and Statistics), sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, phonology, syntax, language planning, corpus linguistics, and language typology and universals. In applied linguistics doctoral supervision is available in areas such as autonomy in second/foreign language learning, multilingualism and bilingualism, language transfer, learner strategies and communicative strategies, media and technologies in language learning, metacognition and metalinguistic awareness, pragmatics and language learning, syllabus, learning materials and pedagogical grammar, the age factor in language learning, and the L2 mental lexicon.

Two academic references (or where appropriate clinical referees)
Academic transcript(s) which must be certified by the issuing body:
Please note that graduates of the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin do not need to provide academic transcripts or copies of award parchments.
Certified copy of degree certificate(s)
Please note that graduates of the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin do not need to provide certified copies of degree certificates.
University of Cambridge:
Proficiency Certificate, Grade C or better (CEFR Level C1 or C2)
Advanced Certificate, Grade C or better (CEFR Level C1 or C2)

IELTS (Academic version)- overall 6.5 (no individual band below 6)
TOEFL (Internet based) - overall 88.
TOEFL (Paper based) - overall 570.