Department of Languages

We offer outstanding British Council accredited preparation provision for undergraduate and postgraduate study. Our courses are designed to develop your English language skills to enable you to go on and study your chosen degree.

• 20-week pre-sessional
• 10-week pre-sessional
• 5-week pre-sessional
• International Foundation Year
• BA (Hons) Business with International Foundation Year
• BA (Hons) Law and Social Sciences with International Foundation Year
• BA (Hons) Art, Architecture and Design with International Foundation Year

We offer a range of flexible part-time language courses from beginner to degree level.  Many of our courses are taught by native speakers and offer daytime and evening classes spread across our City and Headingley Campus.

Languages currently on offer include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Courses run for 26 weeks from October to May - More information is available here.

We offer courses in teacher training and language education, which can be tailored to suit your organisations learning needs. 

Our bespoke language education courses range from one to 16 weeks and can cover a variety of topics for English language and culture such as education, health, the media and understanding British Higher Education.

We offer two types of programmes for teachers:

• Tailored courses that broaden existing teachers’ methodology and teaching techniques. These courses can include school visits to give students a chance to observe and reflect on their own practice.

   

• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) courses, ideal for groups of teachers of any subject area, who plan or already deliver their subject in English. These provide a theoretical background and practical implementation of CLIL in schools and universities.

We host a number of international conferences including our established biennial Languages in the Globalised World Conference, which explores language teaching, learning and language skills development. We also hosted the 2017 English Scholars Beyond Borders Conference, which attracts English teachers and scholars from across the globe to expand conceptual horizons.

Languages in the Globalised World Conference

English Scholars Beyond Borders Conference 

Postgraduate research applications are welcome from candidates who wish to pursue a research interest within the broad fields of applied linguistics, including English language teaching, language acquisition, material development, corpus linguistics, human communication, discourse analysis, translation and interpreting. To find out more visit our Graduate School.