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

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 while delivering educational programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Centre provides four comprehensive taught Masters programs covering Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching, and Speech and Language Processing.

Doctoral research opportunities abound at the Centre. Linguistics scholars have explored various languages and research domains, including 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. For applied linguistics, doctoral guidance spans topics like self-directed second/foreign language learning, multilingualism, language transfer, learning strategies, technology-enhanced language education, metacognition, pragmatics in language acquisition, curriculum design, age-related factors in language learning, and second language vocabulary development.