MA/MS in Applied Linguistics

The Graduate School of Applied Linguistics is described as the first in Japan devoted to applied linguistics, the study of language and related human language activity from many angles. Its master's stage offers three courses: language education, language theory and language culture, with foundation subjects on research methods and general applied linguistics. Language education covers teaching methods, materials and curriculum for Japanese, English and Chinese. Language theory covers linguistics, second-language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics. Language culture covers literature, grammar, thought and comparative culture across the three languages. Students may join special programmes in Japanese or English education, and a programme with an interpreting training company is available for English. The page lists target careers in research and teaching, international organisations, trading companies, language-teaching material development, public service, interpreting, airlines and publishing or media. The school also supports specialised teaching licences for Japanese, English and Chinese at junior and senior high schools.