Master in English And Spanish for Specific Purposes
Alicante, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
2 semesters
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 39 / per credit *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 39,27€ per credit
Key Summary
About : The Master in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes focuses on developing advanced language skills tailored for specific professional contexts. The program combines linguistic theory and practical application, equipping students with the tools to excel in diverse fields. It emphasizes language acquisition and cultural understanding, preparing students for real-world communication challenges.
Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers in areas like translation, interpreting, and language teaching. Opportunities also exist in business communication, international relations, and academic research. The program’s specialized training enhances employability in multilingual environments, making graduates valuable assets in various industries.
- Total credits: 60
- Places offered: 20 places
- Credit fee: €39,27 (1st registration); €62,79 (2nd registration and successive).
- Teaching modality: Face-to-face
- Language of instruction: Spanish and English
- Field of study: Arts and Humanities
- Faculty involved: Faculty of Arts
- Program jointly shared with: Only taught at this university.
| Type of subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Compulsory | 60 |
| Total credits | 60 |
After successful completion of this training module, students are awarded a Master's Degree In English And Spanish For Specific Purposes.
The objectives of the Master’s Degree course are threefold:
- To acquire a high degree of academic specialization in the linguistic discipline of English for specific purposes (ESP).
- To acquire a high degree of academic specialization in the linguistic discipline of Spanish for specific purposes (SSP).
- To acquire the knowledge, theories, linguistic models, and techniques necessary to carry out applied linguistics research in languages for specific purposes (ESP and SSP).
The Masters offers the most innovative training and research in Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, and the use of ICTs for research in Linguistics.
Focus
Research and academic.
Areas of research:
- Communicative praxis in the context of languages for specific purposes.
- Linguistic and cultural mediation.
- The language of patents.
- Idiolect analysis.
- Sociolinguistics and the identification of speakers.
- Linguistic parameters in determining authorship of written texts.
- Linguistic parameters in determining authorship of oral texts.
- Plagiarism and literary translation.
- Forum language.
- The language used in police interrogations.
- Lie detection in police interrogations.
- Bilingual terminology and terminography (English/Spanish/Spanish/English).
- New technology applications in linguistic research and mediation (English/Spanish).
- Corpus linguistics and corpus-based terminography.
- Processing natural language.
- Automatic translation.
- E-learning in teaching languages for specific purposes.
- Legal language.
- Plain English techniques.
- Financial language: Terminology and neologisms.
- Research in pragmatic and cognitive communicative elements in business.
- Communicative theory in economic and financial Spanish: production and reception of texts. Text typology.
- Intercultural pragmatics in specific contexts.
- The professional and academic Spanish lexicon: processes of creating neologisms and disseminating knowledge through terminology.
- Medical language.
- The language of tourism and leisure.
- Research techniques in languages for specific purposes: the role of the English language in the development of the tourism and leisure industry.