Can the MA Linguistics with a track in Language and Communication help me prepare for a course in education?
Yes. If someone already certified to teach primary, middle, or secondary school is interested in learning about language in the classroom, our general curriculum will provide them with excellent tools by which to do so. Language works in concert with other modalities of communication as a conduit through which students acquire a range of skills and a huge amount of information; learn how to solve problems; think (and write) about complex issues in various genres; express their opinions and thoughts in different formats; engage in civil discussion about their differences. Like teachers, students bring their own ways of speaking, developed through and within their homes, communities and cultures, into the classroom. The expertise of our faculty in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and pragmatics (see Questions 6 and 7) will help teachers understand not only the speech activities, social interaction, and discourse in their classrooms, but also how diversity among students’ social ident
