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Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation (acronym: ELLDo) is a Master of Arts programme of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Browse this website for information about the content and organization of the programme. Check whether your questions are answered in the Questions & Answers section.
Registration for the academic year 2025/2026 is open and will close 21 August 2025. Don’t forget to submit your documents! Find all the necessary information about the procedure, register and upload documents in the enrolment system:
Entrance exam:
Online interviews will be held 27-29.08. with all candidates that have submitted the necessary documents in due time. An interview takes about 15 minutes. You will be informed by e-mail about your slot by August 26 and receive a code for the meeting one day before the interview.
The interview tests how well candidates can understand and answer questions about linguistics in English. We expect candidates to be familiar with the content of the study program as described on the pages of this website. The goal of the interview/exam is to pick those candidates that are most interested in and most suited for the study of ELLDo. Two or three professors will ask you questions such as the following:
- What does “linguistics” mean? (We want to hear your personal definition or description, not any definition Google or ChatGPT would give)
- What fields or questions of linguistics do you find most interesting?
- How do you understand “empirical linguistics”?
- On which language or languages would you like to work during your studies? (This may be your mother tongue, a foreign language you learned or one you will start learning, or a group of languages you are interested in.)
- How do you think you can use what you will learn during this master program after your final exam? (In a job or otherwise.)
This entrance exam is not about your knowledge of facts but about your general understanding of linguistics and of what you want to achieve with these studies. We also test how well you understand our questions and are able to answer in English on a level of at least B2. Candidates who have not studied linguistics before, or who studied linguistics in a language other than English, are encouraged to read an introduction to linguistics in English.
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For more information on enrollment read the step-by-step guide (with subpages specifying the necessary documents and the financial conditions).
For practical questions not related to the study program (accomodation, health insurance, etc.) please read the information on the website of the Welcome Centre, or contact the persons named there.
https://amu.edu.pl/en/main-page/online-welcome-center
The ELLDo team can only answer questions related to the content and organization of ELLDo! Before you write to us, make sure the answer to your question cannot be found on the pages of this website.
You are also invited to our facebook page. However, unfortunately we do not have the capacities to update it regularly.