The Language mentor specialisation minor is available at the department as a four-semester bachelor programme that requires 50 credits for graduation. It may be completed as part of a Hungarian major or any foreign language major. The aim of the specialisation is to provide students of Hungarian and foreign language majors with a foundation in applied linguistics, and to guide and prepare them for the Master’s in Applied Linguistics. In addition to an introductory lecture and the basics of research methodology, the course is primarily based on the topics of linguistic methodology, communication, discourse analysis, speech sciences, the social aspects of language use (e.g. bilingualism, multilingualism and language rights) and interculturalism, and is taught through lectures and seminars.

The department also offers the four-semester Speech Science MA (120 credits). Here, we teach the production and processing of speech, starting from the brain’s functions, through the functioning of the organs, to the physical realisation of speech as a soundwave. The programme’s profile is heavily empirical, with a major emphasis on the methodological aspects of designing and conducting experiments, and on the ethical aspects of research, with particular attention to the participants.
Our department also runs the Doctoral Programme of Applied Linguistics within the Doctoral School of Linguistics at ELTE.

The Speech trainer, voice coach postgraduate specialist training course is a two-semester course worth 60 credits, and is intended to give students basic knowledge of speech production and speech perception, as well as features and disorders relating to the process of native language acquisition; to give them strong value judgment and the ability to judge the verbal speech of others, to teach them the rules of using language in different speech situations, and to enable them to develop the speaking skills of those working in mass communication, public life, business and the performing arts, whether individually or in groups. 

The department’s lecturers regularly teach classes within the Applied Linguistics Master’s Programme at the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies, and within the Hungarian Bachelor’s programme and the Hungarian Language And Literature Master’s Programme organised together by the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies and the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, particularly in the fields of speech studies, research methodology, language history, communication studies and conversation analysis. We teach several courses in the Hungarian Teacher’s programme and in the practice-oriented Editing and Business Management minors, such as negotiation techniques, business correspondence, data handling, grammar and document editing.