Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Jill Murray
Margaret Wood
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MAppLing or MAppLingTESOL or MAuslEngInt or PGDipAuslEngInt or MTransInter or MTransInterMIntRel or MTransInterMAppLingTESOL or MIntPubDip or MDevStud or MAccComm or MEd or MAdvTransInterStud
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Based in the field of Anthropological Linguistics, this unit investigates language, society and culture. The content and activities of this unit aim to develop an awareness and understanding of the theories and practical implications associated with linguistic diversity, exploring topic areas which include migration, transnationalism, and identity. The focus is on how worldview influences the language choices of a group and how group values, beliefs and practices generate, maintain, and transform norms of interaction within a culture.
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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:
WRITING, CITING AND REFERENCING
Late assignments The policy regarding late assignments has now been standardised across postgraduate Linguistics units.
Extensions cannot continue beyond the start of the following semester, and students should be aware that long extensions may impact graduation dates.
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 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.
Do not reuse any work you have presented for assessment in this or another unit. This will activate a turnitin alert.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Discussion board | 10% | No | Every week. Assessed web post by Friday Sept 25 |
Quiz ( 2) | 30% | No | Friday 18 Sept and Monday 9 November |
Links between language and culture. | 60% | No | Monday October 19 |
Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Every week. Assessed web post by Friday Sept 25
Weighting: 10%
Each week, there will be a discussion task related to the reading and lecture content. These will take a range of forms and one will be formally assessed. These will be spread across weeks 2-12 of the unit.
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 4 hours
Due: Friday 18 Sept and Monday 9 November
Weighting: 30%
Each quiz will contain 15 multiple choice questions relating to the content of each half of the unit.
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Monday October 19
Weighting: 60%
Research project on a topic relevant to the links between language and culture.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
In 2020, this unit will be offered in online mode with a blend of synchronous and asynchronous activities. These include readings (available to download from the library site via Leganto), videos (usually provided through links to youtube), independent activities and tasks requiring responses on the discussion board. These give you the opportunity to interact and share ideas with other students. There will be one interactive session per week, Wednesday 3-5 pm Sydney time. This session will involve input from the lecturer and some group activities and tasks and will be recorded and uploaded to the ilearn site.
TOPIC AND ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE
WEEK |
Topic |
TASK |
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Week 1: 27 July |
Language in Society (JM) |
Informal web-post – (introduction and goals) |
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Week 2: 3 Aug |
Language Culture and Thought (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 3: 10 Aug |
Culture in Everyday Interactions (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 4: 17 Aug |
Culture and Vocabulary (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 5: 24 Aug |
The Power of Words: Linguistic Taboos (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 6: 31 Aug |
Non-Verbal Communication (JM)
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Informal web-post |
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Week 7: 7 Sept |
Aboriginal Culture and Languages. (Guest lecturer, Joe Blythe) |
Assessed web post. |
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BREAK |
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Quiz 1 on all material from the first half of the unit. |
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Week 8: 28 Sept |
Cultural Differences in Writing (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 9: 5 Oct |
Culture and Communication in Business Settings (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 10: 12 Oct |
Culture and Communication in Health Provider Settings (JM) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 11: 18 Oct |
Culture and Metaphor (JM) |
Research essay |
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Week 12: 26 Oct |
Cultural Issues in Interpreting and Translating (guest lecturer – Jean Cho) |
Informal web-post |
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Week 13: 2 Nov |
Teaching, Learning and Access to Intercultural Knowledge |
Informal web-post (summing up) |
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Quiz 2 on material from the second half of the course. |
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