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Welcome to the Centre for Language and Communication StudiesThe Centre for Language and Communication Studies (CLCS), which is part of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, is a centre of research in linguistics, applied linguistics, phonetics and speech science, and its staff provide teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Phonetics and Speech Lab provides for research and teaching in those areas. Finally, the Centre supports language learning and teaching in the university by maintaining state-of-the-art technical facilities and resources, and providing integrated and extracurricular language modules for students not majoring in languages. The Centre was founded in 1979. Its development has been shaped by the belief that its language centre function should support and be supported by research in linguistics and related disciplines. Thus from its inception CLCS has conducted research in many diverse but related fields, including language pedagogy and acquisition, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, speech science, psycholinguistics, language planning and sociolinguistics. CLCS has played a leading role also in piloting new developments, both within the College and externally on a consultancy basis, in language teaching, the application of new technologies to language learning, Sign Language teaching and interpreting, and the teaching of English as a second language to adult refugees and non-English-speaking pupils in primary and post-primary schools. |
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