One of the great things about studying ELC
at Kingston is it's a really small close knit
community, you'll be taught by everybody who
works in the department and you’ll be in
a very close knit cohort of students working
together throughout your three years.
Studying English Language and Communication
at Kingston you'll find that all the lectures
are interactive and especially the seminars,
so that means you learn by doing. So it's
not about a case of passively sitting there
listening but we get you to do things, we
get you to experiment and we get you to use
language and use language in context. So you
build up a knowledge of language and linguistics
through doing.
I chose to study English Language and Communications
because my original choice was journalism
but I thought that's quite narrow whereas
if I chose something else it kind of gave
me a few more options for when I finish my
degree.
ELC is a half-field subject
so I'm studying another subject alongside
and so far the workload has been very well
balanced between the two. I feel like I'm
never overwhelmed and they've struck a very
good balance.
In English Language and Communications we
do a couple of group projects, so we do the
presentation in groups, you have a formative
one and a summative one so one of them goes
towards your final grade and the other one
doesn’t which is a really good idea because
it kind of gives you a taster of what the
real one's going to be like.
Students go into a range of different professions
after studying English Language. I sometimes
think our graduates can talk their way into
any job. Many go on to further study, to study
within languages but they also go into things
like teaching, speech therapy, maybe law conversion
courses or journalism, there's really many
many possibilities.
My favourite thing about Kingston as a place
to live is that it's a very beautiful little
town. It doesn’t actually feel like you’re
living in London it feels like a village and
there are excellent transport links so you
can go to Richmond, you can go to Surbiton,
into London really easily, so it's a really
nice connected place.
My top tip for living in Kingston is to join
a society when you get to the University because
then you can get a nice group of friends,
common interests but different courses to
go exploring together.
