What are effective ways to learn second languages?
How can communication be improved in critical contexts?
How can we build useful resources for endangered languages?
How is language used in the media?
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which seeks to understand and address language-related concerns in real-life contexts. Applied linguists make visible the role of language and the nature of language use in areas such as education, health care, the media and law.
In the Applied Linguistics Minor, you will encounter language-related issues at different levels of society. You can focus on the detail of ordinary interactions, such as doctor-patient consultations, or the discourse of the classroom, and you can also explore the role of language in broader societal processes, such as the use of language tests in migration policy, or the role of interpreters in court proceedings. You will sample from the diverse range of methods used in Applied Linguistics, for example: ethnographic, participatory, computational and experimental methods. While Applied Linguistics is a core discipline for language teachers, it is also an area of ever-increasing relevance to professions in which language is central in processes such as learning, teaching, interpreting, translating, informing, diagnosing, assessing, negotiating and advocating.
Learning Outcomes
- discuss Applied Linguistics topic areas and their related concepts, theories and methods;
- analyse the role of language in modern systems such as education, migration and health care;
- reflect critically on the relationship between practice and theory in Applied Linguistics topic areas;
- identify relevant questions and apply suitable investigative methods in Applied Linguistics areas of inquiry; and
- communicate clearly and knowledgeably about language-related topics to academic and general audiences.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units which must be selected according to the following rules.
A minimum of 6 units must come from the completion of the following introductory Linguistics courses:
LING1001 Introduction to the Study of Language
LING1002 Language and Society
A minimum of 12 units must come from the following core Applied Linguistics courses:
LANG3001 Translation across Languages: The Translation of Literary Texts
LING2013 Teaching Languages
LING2015 Language, Culture, Translation
LING2021 Cross Cultural Communication
LING2023 Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making
LING2029 Language, Assessment and Policy
LING2034 Communication in Health Care
LING2106 Language and Social Interaction
LING2521 Child Language Acquisition
LING3032 Forensic Linguistics: Forensic Voice and Text Comparison
LING3101 Second Language Acquisition
A maximum of 6 units may come from the following Linguistics and Languages courses:
General Linguistics
ASIA2001 Language in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA2103 Language in Asia and the Pacific (L)
ASIA2308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific
HUMN2001 Introduction to Digital Humanities and Public Culture - Tools, Theories and Methods
LING2005 Language Across Time
LING2018 Languages in Contact
LING3012 Field Methods in Linguistics
LING3025 Special Topics in Linguistics
LING3035 Semantic Typology
LING3036 Advanced Sociolinguistics
LING3038 Corpus Linguistics
LING3126 Topics in Advanced Syntax and Morphology
Language-specific Linguistics
FREN3515 The Sounds of French: Phonetics and Pronunciation
JPNS3012 Teaching Japanese: Content
JPNS3014 Teaching Japanese: Method
LANG3007 Romance Linguistics
LING2017 Chinese Linguistics
LING2028 Japanese Linguistics
LING2040 Austronesian Languages
LING2107 Advanced Academic English
LING3031 Papuan Languages
Indigenous Australian Languages
INDG2003 Gamilaraay: Introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language
INDG2004 Continuing Gamilaraay
INDG2005 Introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language (6-36 units)
LING2016 Language and Society in Indigenous Australia
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