Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington
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Mission Statement
Given that language plays a vital role in the intellectual and social lives of all human beings, the study of linguistics has bearing on a wide range of fields, including (but not limited to) language learning and teaching, literary analysis and criticism, linguistic psychology, communication, linguistic anthropology, philosophy, neurology and neurolinguistics, speech recognition and synthesis, and artificial intelligence.
The UT Arlington Department of Linguistics & TESOL prepares students for careers in both language research and ESL teaching by offering a curriculum that focuses on theoretically informed analysis of language structure and use. Graduates of the department have found employment not only in traditionally defined academic positions (i.e. university-level teaching and research), but also in fieldwork and field program administration, international development, literary consultation, language planning, language technology, and ESL teaching, both in the United States and abroad.
In an age that emphasizes mastery of information exchange, linguistic knowledge can enhance one's acquisition and analysis of language data for educational, missionary, diplomatic, or military purposes. Even though UT Arlington doesn't offer courses in languages of strategic concern to both the nation and the world, the Department of Linguistics & TESOL can provide motivated students with the sorts of core knowledge about how human languages work in general to prepare them for future study at other universities or language institutes that specialize in the more "exotic" languages.
The Department of Linguistics & TESOL is an academic unit of UT Arlington's College of Liberal Arts (Dr. Beth Wright, Dean).