Study Scheme - Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

MA in Applied English Linguistics Programme

Applicable to students admitted in 2023-24 and thereafter

Normative Study Period:
Full-time Mode: 1 year
Part-time Mode: 2 years
Students are required to complete 24 units of courses for graduation.

(I) Required Course
ENGE5010 Theoretical Linguistics	3 units

(II) Elective Courses

ENGE5410	Psycholinguistics
ENGE5420	Sociolinguistics
ENGE5430	Second Language Acquisition
ENGE5440	Language and Intercultural Communication
ENGE5450	Corpus Linguistics
ENGE5460	Natural Language Processing for Applied Linguistics and Education
ENGE5520	Evaluation and Testing
ENGE5540	Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
ENGE5550	English for Specific Purposes
ENGE5560	Second Language Teaching
ENGE5570	Discourse and Pragmatics
ENGE5580	Second Language Writing
ENGE5590	Computer Applications in Second Language Teaching
ENGE5600	Special Topics in Applied English Linguistics
ENGE5610	Issues in Contemporary Applied English Linguistics
ENGE5620	The Acquisition and Teaching of L2 Pronunciation
ENGE5630	Cognitive Linguistics and Its Applications in Language Teaching
ENGE5640	Research Project in Applied English Linguistics*
ENGE5660	Digital Literacies: Theory, Research, and Practice
ENGE5670	Language Policy and Planning (LPP)
ENGE5680	Social Dimensions of Second Language Acquisition
ENGE5690	Second Language Reading Research and Teaching

*Departmental approval is required to take this course.

units

Students must fulfill the Term Assessment Requirement of the Graduate School. For details, please refer to Clause 13.0 "Unsatisfactory Performance and Discontinuation of Studies" of the General Regulations Governing Postgraduate Studies which can be accessed from the Graduate School Homepage: http://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk.
A student must achieve a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0 in order to fulfill the graduation requirement, unless special approval is granted by the Graduate Council.