kkaon1

Anyone going to Binghamton in the fall of 2017?

Thanks for your input historicallinguist! I actually do want to focus on that aspect of linguistics that observes the interaction between English and Chinese. This past year I did a Fulbright ETA in Taiwan. My daily interactions with people and in the Taiwan, I noted a lot of English everywhere. It seems to be highly regarded to speak both English and Chinese. It became almost normal to see both languages throughout Taiwan even though English is not the native language. Traveling in Singapore, and Malaysia I have noticed a similar pattern. To be quite honest, I don't know if I want to study purely theoretical linguistics. Are there any Universities that focus on sociolinguistics? Does the UK government provide scholarships for American students? Is it expensive to study in the UK? I have not looked into schools there so any help would be greatly appreciated. I am from NYC, so I want to be closer to home while I am pursing my degree.

Hi, I was inspired by reading last year's grad app posts that I thought I would start one for this year~ I was a linguistics undergrad major and in my senior year I applied to PhD programs in linguistics. At the time, I wasn't ready for a PhD program; I took two years off after college to improve my Chinese skills but also get real world experience. I am in the process of looking into Masters linguistics programs. The linguistics department in my undergrad was very small and it was a mix of linguistic anthropology and east Asian linguistics. Even though I spent my time working abroad teaching, I was more interested in how English is used outside of the classroom and how the community embraces English. I want to pursue the PhD but I also want a stronger linguistics background. So I want to get a Masters and then decide where to go from there. I looked into applying to Masters programs that will fund me. I prefer to stay in the US, specifically NYC but funding is limited in Masters programs. Most of the funded programs in the US I found focused on Applied linguistics. So I started looking at schools in NYC and some schools in Hong Kong. I also would prefer to do a 1 year masters program but those seem very rare. I appear to have a lot of caveats but I trying to narrow the pool down. I don't want to apply to many schools. Do any of you who are in graduate school have recommendations for sociolinguistic programs? My choices as of right now are: University of Pittsburgh, York University, National Tsinghua University (Taiwan), and the CUNY Graduate Center. On average how many programs do people apply for within linguistics? How many schools should I be aiming for?