SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES

Study

The School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies has a strong New Zealand and international profile in areas as diverse as:

  • Language Learning and Teaching
  • New Zealand English
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Linguistic Theory
  • Lexicography, and
  • Deaf Studies.

The School offers a wide array of subjects and programmes. These range from courses in Deaf Studies and Writing to the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Linguistics and Second Language Education through to Honours.

The Certificate in Deaf Studies: Teaching New Zealand Sign Language is offered to those already fluent in New Zealand Sign Language.

The Graduate Certificate in TESOL attracts recent graduates and is taught in the summer trimester.

Our Master's Programme in Applied Linguistics and TESOL attracts students worldwide, as does our PhD qualification.

The Learning Language Centre (LLC) supports the learning and teaching of languages at Victoria University. It has a multimedia resource collection in a range of world languages including English, New Zealand Sign Language and for TESOL, and offers support services and a welcoming study environment for language learning.

Career Options

Recent graduates of Linguistics considered their study to have been fascinating, stimulating and a useful subject that is very much about people. Many graduates of Linguistics become educators in the tertiary or adult education sectors both in New Zealand and overseas.

Graduates have found work in a number of government departments where information and communication specialists are required. A degree in Linguistics is an excellent basis for many careers in which accomplished written and verbal communication are required, eg:

  • compiling
  • writing
  • editing, and
  • publishing dictionaries.

Read about one of our student's experience here.