Department of Linguistics and English Language
RAE News
The Department of Linguistics and English Language (LAEL) is delighted with its RAE profile: 85% of its activity was internationally recognised, and 20% was judged world leading. In a very rigorous Unit of Assessment, LAEL was the second largest group, with 31.7 staff entered, and is placed well in relation to comparably broad departments.
Our Department is one of the largest of its kind in the UK, with a full-time lecturing staff of 31, some ten Research Associates, and a strong community of around 280 postgraduate students. Two of our staff members are National Teaching Fellows. We have a thriving research environment organised around five research clusters, and a number of research centres and smaller groups.
Undergraduate Study
Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster: 100% brilliant!
Our overall satisfaction rating on the recent National Student Survey was 100%. (Survey taken by 80 students graduating in summer 2010.)
We offer a range of degree schemes, each of which focuses on different aspects of Linguistics and the English language. To find out more about undergraduate study please visit our Undergraduate pages.
For information about tuition fees and the various undergraduate bursaries that are available, see Undergraduate funding opportunities.
Information and resources for current undergraduate students.
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Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster: 100% brilliant!, 23 August 2010
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Events
There are no events today, the next event will be:
14 September 2010, International Gender and Language Association conference (IGALA6)
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Postgraduate Study
Our vibrant research culture is closely linked to highly-rated teaching on a number of postgraduate programs, which are offered both full-time and part-time, on site, overseas or by distance: MA Studies, PhD Studies. The department also hosts an Annual Postgraduate Conference.
We are pleased to announce that a number of new, practice-oriented ELT modules have been added to our MA TEFL and MA TESOL programmes!
MA in Discourse Studies: Places are still available for 2010 enrolment (deadline for applications is 30th August 2010).
Living in Lancaster
Stay on either our park-like campus or in the historic city of Lancaster. See the University's student life pages for more details.
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Lancaster has been ranked first out of 21 university cities for safety, according to a recent national newspaper survey. - There are major road and rail links from Lancaster to London and all other parts of the UK, and Manchester International Airport in close by, see the University's travel pages for full details.
- England's most scenic area – the beautiful Lake District National Park - is only a short distance away.
Our Research
Our research falls into 5 main areas.
Theoretical and Corpus-Based Linguistics
Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Stylistics
Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Research is facilitated by 4 Research Centres and numerous informal research groups.
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre (LLRC)
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
Centre for the Study of Language in Social Life (CLSL)
Centre for Research in Language Education (CRILE)