The Doctoral School of Linguistics of Pázmány Péter Catholic University invites applications to its English language PhD program in APPLIED LINGUISTICS.

Introductory overview of the AppLing Programme in pdf (2024)

The program consists of three main components:

  1. courses
  2. weekly consultations with a supervisor
  3. supervised research, leading to the writing of a PhD dissertation


1. Obligatory and elective courses include the following:

Applied linguistics, Language pedagogy, Language testing and assessment, First language acquisition, Second language acquisition, Language technology, Corpus linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Academic English, Research methodology, Statistics, etc.

Courses are taken during the first two years of the training, which period is concluded by a complex examination.

2. Consultations with the supervisor take place from the first to the fourth year of the program.

3. Additional credits must be earned through research activities: conference presentations and research publications.

 

Information for prospective students

Info about studies

 

Further information, links

General information for international students at Pázmány: https://btk.ppke.hu/en

How to use the faculty library: https://btk.ppke.hu/library-4

Neptun: new password, lost password: https://info.ppke.hu/index_en.html

MTMT registration guide for PhD students: https://btk.ppke.hu/storage/tinymce/uploads/dhi/MTMT-registration-guide.pdf?u=1cTu9M

On the Doctoral School of Linguistics (DSL), including information about the English-language applied linguistics track: http://btk.ppke.hu/nydi

On the Doctoral Office, including contact data (in Hungarian): https://btk.ppke.hu/doktori-kepzesek

On PhD programmes at the Faculty (in English): https://btk.ppke.hu/en/phd-programmes

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org

Recommendations for good practice in applied linguistics by the British Association for Applied Linguistics:
https://www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/goodpractice_stud.pdf (an abridged version)
https://www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/goodpractice_full_2016.pdf  (the full version)