Master in Letters in Centre for Language and Communication Studies in Dublin 2 Ireland | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences provides six specialized Master's programs along with extensive doctoral research options covering general and applied linguistics, speech sciences, speech-language pathology, clinical linguistics, Deaf Studies, and Asian Studies.

Established in 1979, the School's Centre for Language and Communication Studies serves as a hub for research in linguistics, applied linguistics, phonetics, and speech science, delivering both undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Centre features four interconnected Master's Degrees in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching, and Speech and Language Processing.
Doctoral candidates at the Centre explore varied research avenues. Linguistic studies encompass diverse languages and specialties such as language acquisition, computational linguistics (jointly with the School of Computer Science and Statistics), sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, phonology, syntax, language planning, corpus linguistics, and typology. Applied linguistics supervision spans areas including self-directed second/foreign language learning, multilingualism, language transfer, learning strategies, educational technology, metacognition, pragmatics in language education, curriculum design, age-related language acquisition factors, and second language vocabulary development.