Applied English Linguistics BA
Program Purpose
The Applied English Linguistics major provides students with knowledge of human language and analysis skills that can be applied in professions such as TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), computational lingusitics, data science, advertising, creative writing, education, family history, social media, law, medicine, speech pathology, translation, and so forth. The major focuses on English language as it is used.
Curricular Structure
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Requirement 1 - Complete 2 Courses
ELING 223 - Intro to English Language 3.0
LING 198 - Career Explorations in Ling. 2.0
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Requirement 2 - Complete 6 Courses
Core courses:
ELING 273 - Intro to ELing Resrch Mthds 3.0
ELING 324 - Hist of the English Language 3.0
ELING 325 - Grammar of English 3.0
ELING 326 - English Semantics & Pragmatics 3.0
ELING 327 - English Phonetics & Phonology 3.0
ELING 495R - The Senior Course - You may take once 3.0
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Requirement 3 - Obtain confirmation from your advisement center that you have completed the following:
Complete university course work (or the equivalent) to a 200-level or higher in any single foreign language, including American Sign Language. (This requirement varies for Spanish. See the Humanities College Advisement Center.) The language for this requirement may be the same language used to satisfy the GE Foreign Language option, but note that the GE Foreign Language option may require more coursework than this requirement from the Applied English Linguistics major. For non-native speakers of English, the university TOEFL requirement satisfies this requirement for the Applied English Linguistics major. A language relevant to the historical development of English is strongly recommended, namely Latin, French, German, or Classical Greek.
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Requirement 4 - Complete 6 hours
Courses NOT chosen to complete requirement 4 may be used to complete requirement 5.
ELING 362 - Discourse Analysis 3.0
LING 360 - Text Processing and Analysis 3.0
LING 445 - Intro to Psycholinguistics 3.0
LING 452 - Intro to Sociolinguistics 3.0
LING 485 - Corpus Linguistics 3.0
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Requirement 5 - Complete 1 of 4 Options
Primary Track: Within one option, complete 12 hours in courses not chosen for requirement 4 or 6.
Option 5.1 - Complete 12 hours
Linguistic Computing (recommended: LING 360 plus three other courses).
DIGHT 315 - Research in the Digital Hum 3.0
DIGHT 390R - Tools Development Seminar - You may take once 1.0v
DIGHT 495R - Digital Humanities Project - You may take once 1.0v
LING 360 - Text Processing and Analysis 3.0
LING 361 - Speech Processing 3.0
LING 440 - Linguistic Tools 2 3.0
LING 480 - Problems in Translation 3.0
LING 485 - Corpus Linguistics 3.0
LING 581 - Natural Lang Processing 3.0
Note: See minor advisor to discuss how to obtain a LINGC minor: inguistics.byu.edu/department-advisors; note that up to 9 credit hours from the ELING major can also be counted toward the LINGC minor.
Option 5.2 - Complete 12 hours
TESOL/Language Acquisition
ELING 375 - TESOL Listening, Speaking 3.0
ELING 376 - TESOL Read, Write, Vocab 3.0
ELING 477 - TESOL Course & Lesson Planning 3.0
ELING 478 - TESOL Practicum 3.0
ELING 529 - Structure of Modern English 3.0
Note: See minor advisor to discuss how to obtain a TESOL minor or TESOL certificate: linguistics.byu.edu/department-advisors; note that TESOL minors are encouraged to declare during their junior year and that up 12 credit hours from the ELING major can be counted toward the TESOL minor.
Option 5.3 - Complete 12 hours
Language in Society
ELING 322 - Modern American Usage 3.0
ELING 362 - Discourse Analysis 3.0
ELING 468 - Intro to Varieties of English 3.0
LING 366 - Soc. Media/Mrkt. Analysis 3.0
LING 452 - Intro to Sociolinguistics 3.0
LING 551 - Anthropological Linguistics 3.0
Option 5.4 - Complete 12 hours
Language in History
ELING 447 - Early Modern English 3.0
ELING 448 - Late Modern English 3.0
ELING 524 - Hist of the Book 3.0
ELING 525 - Old English 1 3.0
ELING 526 - Middle English 3.0
ELING 535 - Language & Literature 3.0
ELING 548 - Old English 2 3.0
HIST 350 - English Language Paleography 3.0
LING 450 - Intro Histor-Comparative Ling 3.0
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Requirement 6 - Complete 1 of 4 Options
Secondary Track: Within one option, complete 6 hours in courses not chosen for requirement 4 or requirement 5. Secondary track must be different from primary track used for requirement 5.
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Requirement 7 - Complete 1 hour
Experiential Learning
ELING 351R - Editing Student Journals - You may take once 1.0v
ELING 496R - TESOL Internship - You may take once 0.5v
LING 399R - Academic Internship: Ling - You may take once 0.5v
Learning Outcomes
Linguistic Structures
Identify linguistic structures of present-day and historical varieties of the English language (sounds, sound patterns, morphology, grammar, and meaning) and the linguistic/social factors that influence structural/semantic change and variation
Use appropriate methods and linguistic tools to collect, process, describe, and explain language data.
Apply empirical and descriptive methods to solve problems or answer questions in professional settings and disciplines outside linguistics.
Evidence of Learning
Direct Measures
1. Writing project that requires primary and secondary research, administered in the capstone course (495R)
2. Traditional formal course-level tools: class work, exams, papers, projects, quizzes, and oral presentations.
Indirect Measures
1. Focus group interview with graduating students.
2. Survey of graduating students.
3. Survey of alumni from the department.
Learning and Teaching Assessment and Improvement
Changes in the English Language major are considered, refined, and implemented through a program curriculum committee, composed of those faculty who most often teach ELang courses. The committee meets at least twice a year (December and in the Spring or Summer) to review direct and indirect measures of student learning. If the data show that students are not meeting some particular learning outcomes, the committee will devise a plan in that meeting for helping students reach those outcomes. The plan will include a schedule for meetings and a list of action items to be implemented. Action to be taken can be improvements in particular courses or the curriculum or both.