Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Research Excellence
The School of Languages' Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics provides a wide ranging curriculum in theoretical and applied linguistics at undergraduate and MA levels as well as providing supervision to research students.
We are active researchers, and in the 2008 Research Assesment Exercise (RAE), the panel assessed the linguistics submission as having 75% of its research activity of ‘international’ quality with 35% of our submissions being classed as ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world class’.
Teaching Excellence
At the same time, we are committed to providing a full and interesting curriculum in our UG and MA programmes and a stimulating learning environment for our students. In the 2008-9 National Student Survey we scored 100% for general satisfaction with our teaching.
We organise a range of activities and events, including research conferences and workshops, research seminars, and days for English Language teachers. We have an active student society which organises a range of social and linguistics-related events and activities.
Research Environment
We provide a stimulating environment for research in a wide range of subjects across the field, including the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition; corpus linguistics; descriptive linguistics (particularly English, French and Arabic), corpus linguistics, language pedagogy and lexicography.
In addition to promoting research in linguistics, we also encourage synergies between linguistics and related disciplines both within the School of Languages and other Schools in the University. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research in linguistics and translation studies (link) and in linguistics and language pedagogy.
We have a small but vibrant post-graduate community who take part in a range of activities and events, including post-graduate workshops organized in collaboration with Manchester University. We welcome applications from students wishing to be supervised in any of our areas of expertise.
Teaching and Research Staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
See the full list of research staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and their research interests.
Research Groupings and Collaborations
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Linguistics Seminars and Events
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Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
The Salford Working Papers in Linguistics were launched in October 2010 to promote the research undertaken by staff and postgraduate students at the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford. The working papers are published annually. The call for papers is issued in late October every year, with a submission deadline of late January. Accepted papers are published the following July. Visit Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics.
Publications
View a list of publications written by our staff.