Develop close working relationships with research-active faculty who act as editors and executive members of prestigious international journals (Language Learning; Language Awareness, The Canadian Modern Language Review). Our researchers also include the incoming President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics and a Canada Research Chair. Benefit from a multilingual urban setting that includes a high proportion of trilingual youth. The City of Montreal is an ideal location to explore issues related to language policy, politics, teaching and use. Join a diverse cohort of students who are pursuing research in second language teaching, testing and evaluation, psycholinguistics, oral and written production and the use of technologies. Languages that students have worked on in the past include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian and many more.

Applicants are selected on the basis of their past academic record, competence in written and spoken English, letters of recommendation, and experience teaching a second or a foreign language. To be accepted into the program, a student is required to have an undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 3.00 (B average). An academic concentration in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, pedagogy, education, or related discipline and at least one year of professional experience in the field of second language teaching and learning or related areas are desirable. Knowledge of a second language is an asset. Applicants whose primary language is not English must demonstrate that their knowledge of English is sufficient to pursue graduate studies in their chosen field.