POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

ABOUT THE ACADEMY

The Language Academy at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru Campus and UTM Kuala Lumpur campus offers an array of language courses to meet language and communicative needs for various purposes. Apart from English proficiency courses at various levels, foreign language courses are also offered. In addition to professional communication and training programmes, The Academy is equipped with state-of-the-art Digital Language Labs.

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

The Academy offers postgraduate programmes leading to the degree of Master and Doctor of Philosophy. These programmes provide individuals with the opportunity to carry out original research in various areas of English Language or Applied Linguistics.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY
KEY AREAS OF RESEARCH

We are still accepting students who are interested in English Language or Applied Linguistics specifically in the following research areas:

  • English Online Learning and Communication
  • Language and Communication
  • Language and Communication difficulties
  • Reading Difficulty
  • Language and Media
  • Language Learning & Communication
  • Literacy and multiliteracy
  • Discourse Analysis (but NOT Critical Discourse Analysis)
  • Health Communication
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Workplace Communication
  • Pragmatics
  • English Language Training
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Genre
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • Systematic Functional Linguistics
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Anyone who has a Bachelor’s Degree in any field of study related to language and communication with a CGPA of ≥ 3.00 from any Malaysian University or from any other institutions of higher learning recognised by UTM is eligible to apply.

OR

Anyone who has other equivalent qualifications recognised by UTM with at least two years of working experience is also eligible to apply.

For more information on academic rules and regulations, check out this website: https://sps.utm.my/policy-guidelines-v2/

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS

International applicants need to have an English Language Proficiency level equivalent to International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Band 6.0 or Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) 600.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD) PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The duration of the PhD programme at Language Academy is 6 to 16 semesters with full time mode. The admission for the programme opens throughout the year. Students need to complete the following courses as graduation requirement:

Courses Course Code and Name Credit
Faculty Compulsory Course UHPP6013 Language and Communication Research Methodology Section 01 0

University General Course

(offered by other faculties)

*choose one

 

 

3

Thesis

(must register every semester)

 

 

•       Sem 1: PLAG 1100

•       Sem 2: PLAG 1200

•       Sem 3: PLAG 2100

•       Sem 4: PLAG 2200

•       Sem 5: PLAG 3100

•       Sem 6: PLAG 3200

 

 

93

Total 96

 

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY (MPhil) PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The length of the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) programme at Language Academy is 3 to 8 semesters with full time mode. The admission for the programme opens throughout the year. Students need to complete the following courses as graduation requirement:

Courses Course Code and Name Credit
Faculty Compulsory Course UHPP6013 Language and Communication Research Methodology Section 01 0

University General Course (offered by other faculties)

*choose one

 

3

Thesis

(must register every semester)

 

MLAG 1100 Research (1st semester)

MLAG 1200 Research (2nd semester)

MLAG 2100 Research (3rd semester)

10

13

14

Total 40

 

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME TEAM

 

 

POTENTIAL SUPERVISORS
CONTACT US

Dr. Ermi Ruziyana binti Md Nordin

Ph.D. and M.Phil. Coordinator

Language Academy

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

81310, UTM Skudai, Johor

Email: ermi.ruziyana@utm.my

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hadina Habi;

Chair

Language Academy

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

81310, UTM Skudai, Johor

Email: hadina@utm.my

 

For New Language Academy Students Semester 2 2021/2022

Postgraduate Research Programmes at Language Academy (LA) for Sem 2 (2021/2022)