Module overview
This unit will introduce you to the main areas relevant to applied language studies.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Language variation and language varieties;
- Forensic Linguistics: use of language analysis in relation to the law
- Language in an educational context
- Corpus Linguistics and data analysis
- Draw on your understanding of language acquisition and language processing in order to explore the relationship between language and the human mind and brain
- Language politics and language policy;
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Understand and analyse language acquisition data
- Apply analytical linguistic tools and concepts to the analysis of the topics studied;
- Understand and analyse language variation;
- Analyse language data from a range of perspectives;
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Synthesise evidence from a range of sources in order to present a coherent argument;
- Understand the relationship between theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence;
- Apply sophisticated analytical tools to the investigation of a problem,
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Link empirical evidence to the formulation of linguistic theories;
- Language in its geographical, social, historical and political context;
Syllabus
Applied Linguistics?
- The role of linguistics in education
- Language Policy and Planning
- Corpus Linguistics
Sociolinguistics: language variation; dialectology; register; language change;linguistic landscapes
Psycholinguistics
- Language and the brain
- Language acquisition
- Language processing
Forensic Linguistics
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Interactive Lectures;
- Seminar group presentations;
- Group discussion in seminars.
Learning activities include
- Organisation of material and own ideas for oral presentation;
- Developing own interpretation of theoretical texts and concepts;
- Debating ideas in class
- Independent study.
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 126 |
Teaching | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Aitchison, J. (1998). The articulate mammal.. Routledge..
Brumfit, C., (1995). Language education in the National Curriculum. Blackwell.
Fromkin, V. Rodman, R. & Hyams, N. (2003). An Introduction to language.. Thomson & Heinle..
Holmes, J. (2001). An introduction to Sociolinguistics. Longman.
Cook, G. (2003). Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press..
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Blackboard quizzes | 20% |
Assignment | 80% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assignment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assignment | 80% |
Blackboard quizzes | 20% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External