Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor and Lecturer
Linda Cupples
Contact via Email
Australian Hearing Hub Level 3 North, Room 517
By appointment
Administration
Margaret Wood
Contact via 9850 8740
C5A
Tutor and Lecturer
Titia Benders
Contact via Email
Australian Hearing Hub Level 3 North, Room 435
By appointment
Tutor
Joe Blythe
Contact via Email
C5A
By appointment
Lecturer
Maria Herke
Contact via Email
C5A
By appointment
Tutor
Caroline Moir
Contact via Email
By appointment
Tutor
Sue Spinks
Contact via Email
C5A
By appointment
Tutor
Anita Szakay
Contact via Email
Australian Hearing Hub Level 3 North, Room 434
By appointment
Tutor
Deanna Wong
Contact via Email
C5A
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp including 6cp from [(LING210(P) or LING217(P)) or (LING211(P) or LING218(P)) or LING214(P) or PSY238(P) or (LING216(P) or LING219(P) or LING220)]
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
6cp in LING or SPH units at 300 level
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Through an understanding of corpus use (or corpus building), language samples, and other forms of empirical linguistic data, this unit integrates the material covered in previous units, helping students as they approach graduation understand how their program of study fits together. For instance, computer corpora (written, spoken and signed language) provide a rich resource for investigating any aspect of language: as small as the phoneme or as large as whole texts. In this project-based unit, students will prepare themselves either for postgraduate studies in linguistics or for professions in which collecting language data, and its analysis and investigation, are relevant. The unit also shows how language data can complement other forms of linguistic description. This unit will also cover general research principles, the research process, ethical issues in research, defining research questions, data gathering, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data, disseminating research, organising reports, presenting results, and effects on practice.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Please note that assessments 2, 3, and 5 must be submitted electronically via the LING399 iLearn website by the time specified on the due date.
Although no mark is assigned for participation in this unit, attendance at tutorials is expected and class rolls will be taken. In addition, please note that tutorial attendance in weeks 3, 8 and 9 is essential for successful completion of assessment tasks 1, 3, and 4 (i.e., formal oral presentations and peer feedback).
There are several points to note in regard to late submission of assignments:
Academic honesty is an integral part of the core values and principles contained in the Macquarie University Ethics Statement. The Policy covering Academic Honesty is available on the web at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Plagiarism is an example of dishonest academic behaviour and is defined by the Policy on Academic honesty as: “Using the work or ideas of another person and presenting this as your own without clear acknowledgement of the source of the work or ideas”.
Plagiarism is a serious breach of the University's rules and carries significant penalties. The Academic honesty Procedure is available at http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/procedure.html
This procedure notes the following responsibilities for students:
The penalties which can be applied for academic dishonesty are outlined in the Academic Dishonesty – Schedule of Penalties which can be found at:http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/schedule_penalties.html
The penalties range from applying a fail grade for the assessment task or requiring the student to re-submit the assessment task for a mark no greater than 50 to applying a fail grade to the unit of study and referral to the University Discipline committee.
You must read the University's Policy and Procedure on Academic Honesty.
In summary, remember that you, as a good student, are responsible for ensuring academic integrity practices are followed at all times. Your first step is to read the University's Academic Honesty Policy, and make sure you know what constitutes good practice. Then make sure you know how to reference and cite correctly. There are other practices we need to consider, and one of these is the potential for collusion.
Informal study groups are encouraged as a good way to assist your learning, but please remember that all your independently assessed assignments must be totally independently completed. Unless you are doing a group project where each member contributes to producing one piece of work, for which you get the one mark, using part or all of someone else's work constitutes collusion and breaches the University's Academic Honesty policy.
Do not collude with any other student by selling, giving, lending, explaining or showing all or parts of your independently assessed work/answers/past or current assignments, and do not ask to buy, borrow, see and use all or parts of the work of another student.
Academic Senate has a set of guidelines for the achievement of grades across the range from fail to high distinction. Your final result will include one of these grades plus a standardised numerical grade (SNG).
On occasion your raw mark for a unit (i.e., the total of your marks for each assessment item) may not be the same as the SNG which you receive.
For more information please refer to the Macquarie University Handbook.
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Literature search | 5% | Tutorials in wk 3 |
Reflections I and II | 20% | Friday 16/9 and 4/11 |
Oral Presentation | 25% | 4pm Monday Oct 3 |
Peer Feedback | 10% | Tutorials in weeks 8 and 9 |
Project Proposal | 40% | Midday Friday Nov 11 (wk 13) |
Due: Tutorials in wk 3
Weighting: 5%
In-class presentation of the results of a database search related to your proposed individual research topic. The presentation should include: Your draft research question or area, database name(s), search terms, ten (10) journal articles in APA format, and journal impact factors for individual journals.
Due: Friday 16/9 and 4/11
Weighting: 20%
Two (2) reflections, each worth 10% of the unit mark, will be submitted throughout semester. Each one is to be no more than 300 words in length (12 point font, double-spaced).
Reflection I relates to weeks 1-7 of the unit content. It is due at the end of week 7, on Friday 16th September. It should address the following questions. (1) Why is it essential to critically evaluate published information, in both academic and non-academic contexts, even when it has been peer-reviewed? (2) What have you learned about ethical conduct of research, linguistic or otherwise; and how can you apply your new knowledge of ethical behaviour to other aspects of your work or personal life? (3) If you were responsible for allocating funds to individual projects where there were more projects proposed than funds available, which aspect(s) of the projects would have the greatest impact on your decisions and why?
Reflection II relates to weeks 8-12 of the unit and your program of study as a whole. It is due at the end of week 12, on Friday November 4th. It should address the following questions. (1) How do you think you will use your knowledge of language structure and/or processing in your future work or personal life? (2) What do you see as the benefits and possible shortcomings of a peer review process? (In considering this question, it may help you to reflect on how your final project proposal changed as a result of the peer review process used in this unit and how that process resulted in a better proposal.) (3) What did you learn in this unit and your program as a whole about providing effective and constructive feedback to your peers? How will you use that knowledge in your future work or personal life?
Due: 4pm Monday Oct 3
Weighting: 25%
Each student will deliver a 4-minute oral presentation with two (2) accompanying PowerPoint slides in their tutorial class of week 8 or week 9. Regardless of the week in which the oral presentation is delivered, all students must submit the final version of their PowerPoint slides via the iLearn website by 4pm on Monday October 3rd (i.e., week 8). The oral presentation and PowerPoint slides should provide a summary of the essential aspects of the student's project proposal under the following headings.
Due: Tutorials in weeks 8 and 9
Weighting: 10%
Each student will provide (anonymous) peer feedback in the form of comments and/or questions on the oral presentations delivered by other students during tutorials in weeks 8 and 9. The comments will be submitted at the time of the presentations and passed on to each speaker by the tutor.
Notes: Full marks for this assessment will be awarded to students who provide feedback to all other students in their tutorial group. Otherwise, a percentage of the nominated 10% will be allocated; for example, if feedback were provided for 20 out of 25 students, a mark of 8% would be awarded (i.e., 20/25 X 10%). If you miss one of your allocated tutorials in week 8 or 9 due to illness or unavoidable circumstance, and if special consideration is granted, your mark for this assessment will be based on feedback provided in the tutorial you attended. If you miss both weeks, your final mark for the unit will be based on all other assessment components (i.e., a mark out of 90 will be computed and then converted to a percentage).
Due: Midday Friday Nov 11 (wk 13)
Weighting: 40%
Each student will prepare and submit an 8-page proposal for an individualised research project that s/he has designed over the course of this unit. The application will be based loosely on that required for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (ARC DP). It will cover the following aspects.
Lectures: Students attend one 1-hour lecture per week for this unit, which is scheduled for Tuesdays from 10 am to 11 am in W5A T1 Theatre. The lecture programme is outlined in this guide.
Tutorials: There is one 2-hour tutorial per week for this unit. Tutorials begin in the second week of semester. Six optional tutorial times are offered as indicated below.
Note: Students will be able to access the recording of the lecture through iLearn, but no recordings will be available for the interactive and problem-based weekly tutorial classes. Students are, therefore, strongly encouraged to attend all tutorials during semester if at all possible.
Tutorial Options |
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Start Time |
Room |
Tutor |
Tuesday |
11 am |
E7B 146 |
Joe Blythe |
Tuesday |
2 pm |
C5A 201 |
Titia Benders |
Wednesday |
9 am |
E6A 109 |
Deanna Wong |
Wednesday |
12 pm |
X5B 136 |
Anita Szakay |
Thursday |
9 am |
C5A 232 |
Caroline Moir |
Thursday |
11 am |
E5A 130 |
Sue Spinks |
The recommended text for this unit is: Litosseliti, L. (Ed.) (2010). Research methods in linguistics. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury.
A secondary (recommended) text is: Wray, A., & Bloomer, A. (2013). Projects in linguistics and language studies (3rd Edition). New York, N.Y.: Routledge
See the unit website for details of other required readings for tutorials and assessment exercises.
The web page for this unit can be found at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au
Word processing is needed for completing assessments 1, 2, 3, and 5; internet access is needed for downloading lecture and tutorial materials and for uploading assignments.
No other technologies.
Week |
Beginning |
Lecture Topic |
Tutorial Activities |
1 | Aug 1 |
Introduction to LING399
(Linda Cupples) |
No Tutorials in week 1 |
2 | Aug 8 |
Critical evaluation of research (Linda Cupples) Reading: Peach, R. K. (2002). Treatment for phonological dyslexia targeting regularity effects. Aphasiology, 16, 779-789. Critique guidelines are available on iLearn. |
Searching the literature
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3 | Aug 15 |
Asking answerable research questions (Linda Cupples) |
Students' oral presentations, briefly summarising the results of their database search (see Assessment Task 1) Group Discussion of topics including:
Reading: Smith, R. (2006). Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99, 178-182. |
4 | Aug 22 |
Ethical issues in linguistic research (Linda Cupples) Note: You will be asked to complete a number of tasks before this session. See the iLearn website for details. |
Group discussion of topics including:
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5 | Aug 29 | Research design I: Quantitative (Titia Benders) |
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6 | Sept 5 | Research design II: Qualitative (Maria Herke) |
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7 | Sep 12 |
Structuring a research proposal (Colm Halbert; Linda Cupples) |
Group discussion of topics including:
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Mid-semester Break |
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8 | Oct 3 |
Theme: Experimental insights into language sound systems (Dr Michael Proctor) |
Students' oral presentations |
9 | Oct 10 | Theme: Basic science and clinical research in communication disorders (Dr Scott Barnes) | Students' oral presentations |
10 | Oct 17 | Theme: Applied linguistics (Dr Phil Chappell) | Group and peer discussion of project proposals with a focus on aims, background, significance, and innovation (using expanded oral presentations as a stimulus for discussion). |
11 | Oct 24 |
Theme: Corpus research (Distinguished Professor Katherine Demuth) |
Group and peer discussion of project proposals with a focus on conceptual framework, design, and methods (using expanded oral presentations as a stimulus for discussion). |
12 | Oct 31 | TBA |
Group and peer discussion of project proposals with a focus on national benefit (using expanded oral presentations as a stimulus for discussion). |
13 | Nov 7 | TBA |
Wrap up!
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Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
New Assessment Policy in effect from Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. For more information visit http://students.mq.edu.au/events/2016/07/19/new_assessment_policy_in_place_from_session_2/
Assessment Policy prior to Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
Grading Policy prior to Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Complaint Management Procedure for Students and Members of the Public http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/complaint_management/procedure.html
Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/student_conduct/
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Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/
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