Those persons interested in this course may come from a wide variety of diploma courses that are related to the subject matter of this Master's Degree:

 

Yet, this Master's Degree is open to all those persons coming from non-related diploma courses, but who for professional or personal reasons wish to plunge in the subject matter of this course. The candidate should take the courses of the bridging module (face-to-face or e-learning) before being admitted to the master's programme.

 

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Career opportunities: this Master's Degree trains students in two professional fields that are usually subdivided into different areas:

Teaching and learning languages	Linguistic mediation for companies, institutions and general public
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)	Communication management
Elaboration of didactic materials	Discourse typology
First and Second Language Teaching	Language consultancy for companies and the civil service
Multiculuralism and Plurilingualism in the classroom	Subtitling of audiovisual material
Newcomers programme	Terminology
Usage of technology as a tool for language learning	Textual edition and publishing
	Translation
	Usage of technology as a tool for mediation

 

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This Master’s Degree may also serve as an introduction to research. Once students have finished the course, they may follow this track by pursuing PhD studies.  Students who wish to follow the research track will be given the choice of joining established research groups at the UdL:

• Applied Linguistics Cercle (CLA)  (2014-SGR- 1061)

Research team leader: Enric Llurda

• Grupo de Investigación en Aplicaciones Lingüísticas (GRIAL) (2014-SGR- 1182)

Research team leader (UdL): Glòria Vázquez

• Grupo de Investigación en Mediación Lingüística (GIML) (2014-SGR- 988)

Research team leader: Neus Vila