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Part Three – Postgraduate Units of StudyLING928 Bilingualism4 pg cpThe unit discusses bilingualism from a cognitive point ofview. Topics addressed include childhood bilingualismand its relationship to cognitive development, bilingualeducation, language attrition, bilingualism in the ageingpopulation, and in special circumstances (deafness andlanguage disorders).LING931/932 Special ProjectCommunication Disorders Part A andPart B3 pg cp eachAs an alternative to enrolling in LING816 students havethe option of completing the Special Project over twohalf years via enrolment in LING931 Special Project PartA and LING932 Special Project Part B (total 6 pg cp)LING934/935*** Dissertation Part A and B4 pg cp each (over two half years)Candidates also have the option of completing theDissertation over two half years via enrolment inLING934 Dissertation Part A and LING935 DissertationPart B (total 8 pg cp)LING936*** Context, Use and Analysis ofthe English Language: a GlobalPerspective4 pg cpThis unit provides a broad exploration of the different situationsof language use and language learning, includingthe international spread of English in changing contexts.Also considers the nature, form and function of Englishand the analytical tools needed for language teachers.LING937*** TESOL in Context4 pg cpThis unit is concerned with the processes of learninganother language, and how interactions between teachersand learners affect the nature and quality of that learning.The unit explores the needs, motivations, social identitiesand learning strategies of learners.LING938*** Curriculum Innovation inLanguage Teaching4 pg cpThis unit covers directions in curriculum change, politicaland institutional constraints in curriculum development,planning and implementing change, and evaluatingthe processes and products of change.LING939 Special Study in AppliedLinguistics4 pg cpThis unit is designed to allow students to undertakefocused study of a topic of particular interest throughreadings, seminars and tutorials. Permission of convenorrequired.LING946*** Leading and ManagingLanguage Programs4 pg cpThis unit discusses leadership, management and communicationin language teaching organisations: structure,quality assurance (including performance management),intercultural communication, conflict management, teambuilding, managing and conducting meetings.LING947*** Discourse in Professional andOrganisational Contexts4 pg cpKey concepts, issues and practices in the professional andorganisational communication, drawing on studies in linguistics,discourse analysis, social theory, and the sociologyof work and organisations. Practical analysis , connectingthe study of workplace texts, workplacediscourses, and workplace practices in different contextsand sites, explores how language use and social organisationstructures are closely interdependent.LING948*** Evaluating CommunicationSystems, Processes and Products4 pg cpIntroduction to principles and methodologies for evaluatingthe effectiveness of communication systems in arange of workplaces, how these systems give rise to particularprocesses of information construction, exchangeand interpretation, and how a multi-modal and multi-perspectivedanalysis of communication events, participantbehaviours, and their associated texts can be revelatory ofthese systems and processes.LING951*** Sociocultural Aspects ofLanguage Learning and Teaching2 pg cpThis unit is concerned with intercultural considerations inthe classroom; language learning and teaching in monolingualand bilingual/multilingual societies; first and secondlanguage acquisition/learning; socio-psychologicalfactors in language learning and teaching; the adult learnerand the young learner of languages; politics of language;critical literacy.LING953*** Practicum3 pg cpThis unit focuses on TESOL classroom practice; practicalapplication of the content of the Language TeachingMethodologies unit (LING955); observation of TESOLclasses; practice teaching; lesson/materials preparation,and self-evaluation.LING954*** Linguistics and LanguageTeaching3 pg cpThis unit explores the nature of language, language incontext, register, text structure, sentence and text levelgrammar, spoken and written English, phonology, languageand language learning.295
Handbook of Postgraduate Studies – 2004LING955*** Language TeachingMethodologies4 pg cpThis unit explores approaches to language teaching; lessonand program planning; developing language skills;classroom management; materials evaluation and selection;technological aids to language teaching/learning;assessment and evaluation.LING956*** Acquiring ProfessionalCommunicative Expertise4 pg cpThe nature of professional expertise, its definition and itsprocesses of acquisition, its relationship to the charting ofprofessional competencies and to personal communicativecapacity. How social and institutional contextsinform and are informed by narratives of experience. Thenature of claims and warrants for expert behaviour.Evaluation of evidence for expert exercise of judgment indifferent contexts.LING957*** Inter and Intra-culturalCommunication4 pg cpPrinciples and processes of inter-/intra cultural communicationagainst diverse interpretations of the construct ofculture. The explanatory analysis of the discourses occurringat critical moments in crucial sites of engagement inworkplaces, involving participants from distinct ethnolinguisticand/or institutional/organisational cultures, andemphasising especially issues of intertexuality, stance,face, metaphor, verbal/non-verbal communication, andvariation in pragmatic meaning.LING958*** Professional-clientCommunication4 pg cpParticipants describe, interpret and explain selected professional-clientencounters in key sites, eg healthcare,law, social work, bureaucracies, firms, and public relations.The course emphasises the explanatory value andrelevance of carrying out collaborative research involvingdiscourse specialists and professionals, leading totraining and other processes which will improve professional-clientcommunication.LING959*** Mediated Communication4 pg cpIntroduction to a variety of methodologies for analysingand describing multi-modal communication in a range oforganisational and professional settings, emphasising theimpact of the deployment of new communication technologieson workplace communication practices, andparticipant skills. Particular emphasis is given to manmachineinteraction, usability of web-mediated communication,visually presented information, collaborativemessage generation and document design.296LING960*** OrganisationalCommunication4 pg cpRealisation of organisational structure in particular patternsof discourse and language use; the impact of organisationalchange on modes of communication and onworker identity, particularly in response to globalisation,demands for enhanced public participation, transparenceand accountability, workplace reform; how discourses ofinformation and policy are created, re-contextualised,transformed and re-interpreted for and by different audiencesin the context of work across and within organisations.LING961*** Essentials of Editing3 pg cpThe unit introduces the domains and principles of editing,and focuses on key policy-making areas of style, inclusivelanguage and typography; and the interaction withother parties involved in the editorial process.LING962*** Language and Writing Style3 pg cpThe unit examines the resources of the English languageand how they are used by skilled writers and editors.Issues of readability, style and authorial expression willbe under discussion.LING963*** Structural and ElectronicEditing3 pg cpThis unit is concerned with the principles of structuralediting, and their application to both printed and electronicmedia. Issues of access and navigation in electronicdocuments will be discussed, as well as onscreen editingand indexing.LING964*** Editorial Issues andResponsibilities3 pg cpThe unit addresses the executive roles of the editor inrelation to a manuscript, managing reviews and the rightsand permissions process, commissioning of indexes andpromotional writing.LING965*** Dissertation I4 pg cpThis unit consists of guided reading and/or an experimentalprogram preliminary to the writing of the dissertation.The project will be developed through a series offour individual consultations.LING966*** Dissertation II4 pg cpThis unit complements LING965 and consists of thewriting up of the dissertation. The dissertation will bediscussed and reviewed in a series of four consultations.
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