List of American Universities That Offer an M.A. in Applied Linguistics

UCLA

• The Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of California-Los Angeles offers the M.A. degree in applied linguistics in conjunction with numerous other departments including anthropology, neuroanatomy, psychology, education, sociology, and Asian languages and cultures. The UCLA program is designed in such a way that it should serve as the stepping-stone to a doctorate and a career in the research of applied linguistics. UCLA's applied linguistics program focuses on three primary areas of research: language acquisition, language assessment and discourse analysis.

  UCLA Applied Linguistics & TESL
  3300 Rolfe Hall, Box 951531
  Los Angeles, CA 90095
  (310) 825-4631
  www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/maprog.html

Boston University

• The Master of Arts program at Boston University, like the program at UCLA, is primarily intended to prepare students for the doctoral program. The program is designed to be completed in three years and requires that students submit a final M.A. project related to their field of specialization. Areas of study covered by the program include speech and language disorders, phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition and theory, and discourse analysis. Six areas of specialization are open to M.A. students. These are sign language, language and literacy in the classroom, bilingualism and language teaching, language structure and linguistic theory, neurolinguistics and language disorders, and language acquisition and development.

  Program in Applied Linguistics
  Boston University
  96 Cummington St., Room 246
  Boston, MA 02215
  (617) 353-6197
  bu.edu/applied-linguistics

University of Massachusetts

• The University of Massachusetts offers a unique option in the study of applied linguistics at the master's degree level. UMass offers an online M.A. in applied linguistics that gives students the opportunity to pursue their degree entirely online. The program is designed to be interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on several different areas of study including cross cultural studies, ESL/EFL methodologies, discourse analysis and ethnographic research methods, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, basic theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics.

  University of Massachusetts
  333 South St.
  Suite 400
  Shrewsbury, MA 01545
  (617) 287-6000
  umassonline.net/degrees/Online-Degree-Master-Applied-Linguistics.cfm