List of American Universities That Offer an M.A. in Applied Linguistics

Prominent colleges offer applied linguistics programs.

Applied linguistics involves the study of how language can be applied to solve problems in real-world situations. There are a number of fields related to linguistics such as anthropology, forensics and psychology. The M.A. degree in applied linguistics can help further your career in your chosen field by giving you specialized training or by broadening the scope of your training and exposing you to a variety of disciplines related to linguistics. There are a number of schools that offer the M.A. degree in applied linguistics.

UCLA

The Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of California-Los Angeles offers the M.A. degree in applied linguistics in conjunction with numerous other departments including anthropology, neuroanatomy, psychology, education, sociology, and Asian languages and cultures. The UCLA program is designed in such a way that it should serve as the stepping-stone to a doctorate and a career in the research of applied linguistics. UCLA's applied linguistics program focuses on three primary areas of research: language acquisition, language assessment and discourse analysis.

UCLA Applied Linguistics & TESL
3300 Rolfe Hall, Box 951531
Los Angeles, CA 90095
[phone]
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/maprog.html

Boston University

The Master of Arts program at Boston University, like the program at UCLA, is primarily intended to prepare students for the doctoral program. The program is designed to be completed in three years and requires that students submit a final M.A. project related to their field of specialization. Areas of study covered by the program include speech and language disorders, phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition and theory, and discourse analysis. Six areas of specialization are open to M.A. students. These are sign language, language and literacy in the classroom, bilingualism and language teaching, language structure and linguistic theory, neurolinguistics and language disorders, and language acquisition and development.

Program in Applied Linguistics
Boston University
96 Cummington St., Room 246
Boston, MA 02215
[phone]
bu.edu/applied-linguistics

University of Massachusetts

The University of Massachusetts offers a unique option in the study of applied linguistics at the master's degree level. UMass offers an online M.A. in applied linguistics that gives students the opportunity to pursue their degree entirely online. The program is designed to be interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on several different areas of study including cross cultural studies, ESL/EFL methodologies, discourse analysis and ethnographic research methods, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, basic theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics.

University of Massachusetts
333 South St.
Suite 400
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
[phone]
umassonline.net/degrees/Online-Degree-Master-Applied-Linguistics.cfm

References

• UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL
• Boston University: Applied Linguistics
• University of Massachusetts Online