Master in Letters - Clinical Speech and Language 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 can pursue diverse research paths. Linguistic studies span multiple languages and disciplines 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 language typology. Applied linguistics research areas include self-directed second/foreign language learning, multilingualism, language transfer, learner strategies, educational technology, metacognition, pragmatics in language learning, curriculum design, pedagogical grammar, age-related language acquisition factors, and second language vocabulary acquisition.