To gain a Pass grade in LING111 Students must:

• Sit the final exam, and
• Attend 80% of tutorials, and
• Gain an overall mark of 50%.

Referencing for Assessments

Please note that all assessable submissions to LING111 require that version 6 of the APA Referencing Scheme is used. For more information on the APA v.6 Referencing Scheme, please see http://www.apastyle.org/manual/index.aspx

For answers to common questions about the APA v.6 Referencing Scheme, please see: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx

Assessment submission

Assessments are to be submitted electronically via the LING111 iLearn page unless otherwise advised.

Most assessments are submitted to Turnitin. Instructions for submitting assessments via Turnitin are available here: http://www.mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/assignments.htm

When submitting your assessments to TurnItIn, please ensure that you do the following:

• Please add a header to each page with your name, your student number, and the assessment name e.g.,Matt Smith 40123456 Descriptive Essay
• Please number all pages
• Please use 1.5 or double line spacing

All assessments must be submitted before the cut-off times. Assessments submitted after these times are likely to incur late submission penalty of 5% per day they are late. Please keep a copy of your assessments in case of misadventure.

Access to Marked Assignments

Marked assessments will, in general, be available to them within 2 to 3 weeks of submission. All marked assessments can be accessed via iLearn.

Please note that assessments submitted after the return of marked materials will not be marked.

Extensions Policy

Extensions are granted only on grounds of serious and unavoidable disruption, and appropriate supporting documentation must be submitted. Assessments submitted after the deadline, regardless of the reason, will be marked and returned at a date determined by the unit convener.

Extensions cannot continue beyond the start of the following semester, and students should be aware that long extensions may impact graduation dates.

Requests for an extension can be made by submitting a notification of Disruption to Studies via AskMQ http://ask.mq.edu.au/

Note that your notification should be submitted within five (5) working days of the disruption beginning.

For the university Disruption to Studies Policy, please see : http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html

To ensure you provide appropriate documentation, please see the Disruption to Studies Supporting Evidence Schedule: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/schedule_evidence.html

Please note that submitting a notification of Disruption to Studies does not guarantee an extension, and you should consider carefully before making a notification. As a university student, you are expected to plan your time so that all assessments can be submitted in a timely manner. A Notification of Disruption to Studies is for serious and unavoidable disruption, not for poor time management.

Requests for an extension made within one week of the due date, or after the due date will only be granted if warranted by the circumstances and supported by appropriate documentation (see the Disruption to Studies Supporting Evidence Schedule link above).

Late Submissions Policy

Late submissions will attract a penalty of 5% per day for each day it is late after the due date. This includes Saturdays and Sundays. Assessments submitted after the return of marked materials will not be marked.

In the event of an exceptional circumstance such as a major illness or misadventure, students should submit a notification of Disruption to Studies via AskMQ http://ask.mq.edu.au/ (please see the extensions policy above).

All information on assessment including the marking criteria will be available via iLearn.

Attendance

Students are expected to attend and participate in all classes. In particular, you are required to attend at least 80% of your tutorials. Tutors will keep a record of attendance at tutorials. Tutorials begin in Week 2.

Requests for special consideration, and Notification of Disruption to Study should be directed to AskMQ http://ask.mq.edu.au/

Please note that tutorials begin in Week 2.

The learning and teaching strategies used in this Unit include face-to-face lectures taught by a number of different staff members from linguistics.

There is a set textbook: An introduction to Language, Australia and New Zealand 8th Edition, 2014, by Fromkin, Rodman, Hyams, Amberber, Cox, and Thornton. Please note that the 8^th edition of the unit text book has had significant updates, and previous editions will not be reliable substitutes.

Lecture notes, assessment task instructions and other relevant materials are uploaded to the LING111 iLearn site. The lectures are recorded, which makes lectures available to students who are unable to attend classes, although attendance at lectures will be an advantage. Students are expected to attend or listen to all of the lectures in order and as they are delivered. In addition, they are advised to use the recordings to review or revise lectures, especially as the exams draw near. Note that in this unit, much of the lecture material and related learning experience is accumulative, meaning that within the various topic areas one lecture will usually provide necessary knowledge for the next one, as well as for the following week’s tutorial. In addition, the tutorial material is designed for students to practice progressively what has been covered in lectures in the previous week or weeks, so students who do not keep up to date with the lecture material will find themselves at a serious disadvantage in tutorials during the semester.

Students must attend one tutorial a week; 80% attendance at tutorials is a requirement of the unit.

Each week students are expected to study the lecture notes, and come to their tutorial class having read the relevant section in the textbook and having attempted the tutorial preparation as set out each week in the tutorial worksheets posted online. Tutors will check each week that students have at least made a serious attempt at the tutorial preparation as set out in the worksheets. Satisfactory preparation is an essential part of proving your 80% attendance at tutorials.

This schedule may be changed at short notice. Please refer to the LING111 iLearn for announcements on scheduling changes.

Changes to the 2015 offering of LING111 include:

A new edition of the required text book (Fromkin, Rodman, Hyams, Amberber, Cox, & Thornton, 2014)

Assessment changes include:

~The diagnostic assessment is now a definition writing task designed to develop core knowledge, assess basic writing skills, and reinforce referencing and citation requirements.

 ~The morphology quiz has been removed from the assessment schedule.

 ~The phonemic transcription task is now worth 15% of the total raw marks

 ~The final exam is now worth 40% of the total raw marks