Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (Part-time)

The Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (part-time) has been discontinued with effect from the end of the 2019/20 academic year. 

1. Candidates for the PGDip in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching shall normally have successfully obtained an honours degree. They shall normally be engaged as teachers of a second or foreign language at the time of application, and shall expect to continue this engagement during the course.

2.  Every candidate must follow a part-time course of instruction in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching as determined by the Course Director for five terms. All candidates on the course are required to complete six summatively assessed taught modules, and two formatively assessed modules, or, in exceptional cases and as determined by the Course Director, to give evidence of equivalent learning for one of these two formatively assessed modules.

3.  Candidates shall be deemed to have passed the examination if they pass all six assessed modules.

4.  In each of the two years of this part-time course, an electronic copy of each take-home examination for the two Michaelmas Term modules must be uploaded to the Department of Education’s Higher Degrees WebLearn site, no later than noon on the Friday of Week 0 of Hilary Term, and an electronic copy of the take-home examination for the Hilary Term module must be uploaded to the same place no later than noon on the Friday of Week 0 of Trinity Term. Each take-home examination must be accompanied by a declaration indicating it is the candidate’s own work. Marks will be released to candidates during Hilary Term and Trinity Term of each year after a meeting of the Examination Board.

5.  If a candidate receives a failing mark for any of the summative assessments, they may resubmit the assessment on one further occasion, either by a date for resubmission which will be published by the Course Director when the results are released, and will be no sooner than 6 weeks from the release of the results, or in the corresponding term of the following year when assessments take place. Candidates who fail any modules at the first attempt cannot normally be awarded more than 50 at resubmission.

6. The candidate may also be examined orally.