Language Sciences

Key features

Leading experts will instruct you key, contemporary issues in language sciences. Building on core knowledge in linguistics and psycholinguistics, you'll gain professional training in the neuroscience of language, language development and disorders, and multilingualism.

Explore how language is implemented in the brain, including functional MRI and the electrophysiology of language, how language may be affected by developmental and acquired language disorders, and the linguistic and cognitive consequences of mulitlingualism.

Careers

MSc Language Sciences programat the University of Reading is ideal for preparing graduates in linguistics, speech and language therapy, psychology, education and allied disciplines for research-related careers and PhD study in the language sciences. It is also appropriate if you are a professional already working in speech and language therapy and would like to update your knowledge of the language sciences.

Courses include:

• Language Acquisition and Processing

• Language and Communication in Genetic Conditions

• Neuroscience of Language

• Research and Dissertation

• Multilingualism and Impairment across the Lifespan