Applied Linguistics

Program Head: Kendall King, Ph.D./Alison Mackey, Ph.D.

The Applied Linguistics Program at Georgetown focuses on theory and practice in second language pedagogy, second language acquisition, bilingualism and bilingual education, language assessment, endangered languages, language policy and cognitive linguistics.

Applied Linguistics at Georgetown offers the following degrees:

• Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language (M.A.T.)
• Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education (M.A.T.)
• Accelerated M.A.T.
• Master of Science (M.S.) in Linguistics
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Linguistics

 

Faculty (regular and associated) and student interests currently include:

The advanced foreign language learner
Attention and SLA
Bilingual education and classroom second language learning
Bilingualism
Cognitive SLA
Cross-cultural communication
Educational Technology
Endangered language loss and revitalization
Focus on Form
Generative language acquisition
Ideological and sociolinguistic perspectives on second language acquisition

Input, interaction and SLA
L2 assessment; L2 discourse
L2 materials preparation
L2 pedagogy
L2 processing
L3 acquisition
Language planning and policy
Language socialization
Linguistics and Reading
Linguistics and Writing
Pedagogical grammar
SLA.

For more information on second language acquisition (SLA) at Georgetown, please visit the SLA web pages.

For the M.S. and Ph.D. programs, students satisfy the departmental core course requirements and then, with the guidance of an advisor, develop a program of study according to their individual interests. Ph.D. studentslisoso take required courses as preparation for doctoral research (three advanced applied linguistics research seminars, statistics, and research methods).

The advanced applied linguistics seminars and the Georgetown University Foreign Language Initiatives in Research and Teaching (GU-FLIRT) offer a wide-range of opportunities for faculty-student collaborative research. Additional opportunities in interdisciplinary research are available to M.A.T. and other Applied Linguistics students through apprenticeship positions in the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), a joint project funded by the US Department of Education and conducted in cooperation with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) and George Washington University (GWU).