You will learn through class discussions, sharing ideas and developing your understanding in seminar groups. You will also have lectures in which experts in the field will guide you through the key aspects of topics, directing you towards useful further reading to help you with your own research. You may have workshops in which you work with others to closely analyse texts with the guidance of a tutor, perhaps studying the pattern of exchanges, or differences in accent, with in some recorded conversation, for example. You might also be taught how to use specialist equipment to record or interpret some examples of language use which interests you.