Online Submission

All submissions of work are handled online and links to the various submission portals for the different type of assignment on this unit will be made available on iLearn, along with instructions on how to submit.

Extension Requests and Lateness Policy

• Late submissions without an extension will receive a penalty of 3% of the total mark available for the assessment task per day including weekend days (i.e. this is 3% of the total marks possible for the task – NOT 3% of the marks the student received. For example, if the assessment task is worth 100 marks and the student is two days late their mark for the task is reduced by 6 marks.)
• Late submission of an assessment task without an extension will not be accepted at all after the date on which marked assessment tasks have been released to the rest of the class. Any student with unsubmitted work at this date will receive a mark of 0 for the assessment task.
• Extensions will only be given in special circumstances, and can be requested by completing the Special Consideration request at ask.mq.edu.au and providing the requisite supporting documentation.
• Extensions that will result in submissions after the assessment task has been returned to the class will require a separate assessment task to be completed at the unit convenor's discretion.
• For more information on Special Consideration, see the university website https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration\
• If a student fails the unit due to non-submission of an assignment or non-attendance at an exam, an FA grade will be applied in accordance with the University's Assessment Policy.

Academic Honesty

As a good student, you 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 another person's work constitutes collusion and breaches the University's Academic Honesty policy.

What is collusion?

This is the unauthorised presentation of group work as your own.  It may involve

• Working with someone to provide one piece of work
• Allowing others to share your assignment answer or copy your work
• Using the assignment answer or work of another student (past or present) with or without their permission. It is collusion even if only small parts of the assignment are used
• Allowing others to edit and write your work
• Editing or writing the work of another student
• Offering to do work for another student or seeking payment for preparing academic work for someone else

How can you avoid collusion?

• Do not share your findings or answers to an assignment
• Do not use another student’s case studies, findings or ideas about an assignment
• Do not ask another student for a copy of their assignment
• Do not share your current or past assignments with another student (whether to “look at the structure” or any other reason).
• Do not post solutions to assessment problems on any social media or online platforms

It is recommended that you complete this Academic Integrity Module:

Academic honesty is considered to be extremely important by the Department of Linguistics and the University. All assignments are submitted to Turnitin and compared with other assignments (past and present) and with content on the internet. Serious breaches of academic honesty may result in failure of the unit or in extreme cases suspension or expulsion from the university.

Delivery

LING219 is taught by 2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Lectures begin week 1, please check your timetable or iLearn for the most up-to-date details of time and place.

Tutorials begin in week 1. Tutorials draw upon the material covered inthe lectures in the same week, so you are expected to have attended the lecture, or accessed it via Echo360.

Tutorials in weeks 1-6 support the group video assessment. The tutorials in weeks 7-10 will involve you dealing with research data, and you will require a laptop to do this. Tutorials in weeks 11 and 12 focus on exam preparation. There are no tutorials in week 13.

All lectures are recorded using Echo360 and will be available to view on iLearn. Please be aware that the recordings are not a substitute for attending the lectures as they will not capture any interactive activities or question and answer sessions fully. You should use the recordings as a revision and study aid, not as a substitute for class attendance.

Reading

The core textbooks for the unit are:

Holmes, J., and Wilson, N. (2017). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (5^th ed.). Abingdon: Routledge.

Kielsing, S. F. (2011). Linguistic Variation and Change. Edinburgh: EUP.

Meyerhoff, M. (2011). Introducing Sociolinguistics (2^nd ed). Abingdon: Routledge.

Myerhoff, M., Schleef, E., and MacKenzie, L. (2015). Doing Sociolinguistics. Abingdon: Routledge.

The library has e-copies of all of these, except for Meyerhoff (2011), for which an e-copy has been ordered. You will be assigned readings from one or more of these books every week.

Each week there are also multiple further readings suggested for the tutorial, you should aim to reads at least one of these each week, as they will support the tutorial activities. All unit readings are accessible using the Leganto Reading list on the unit iLearn site.

Digital Resources

The unit is supported by digital resources that accompany the textbook, including a searchable glossary, a YouTube channel, and a set of interactive learning activities.

This schedule is indicative and may be subject to change.

Additional textbooks have been assigned, and some minor changes to the focus of the video assessment task.