Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
| No. | Course learning outcome |
|---|---|
| 1 | Understand the interdisciplinary context of linguistics through research on linguistic topics that connect meaningfully to related disciplines and fields of application. |
| 2 | Display knowledge and skills relating to data gathering and analytical techniques in domains from sound to grammar to meaning to multimodal discourse. |
| 3 | Produce presentations about linguistic phenomena to non-specialists, drawing on terminology, representations, and genres appropriate to standards of the discipline. |
| 4 | Interpret and deploy insights from a wide range of specialist literatures, including principles for selecting relevant publications. |
| 5 | Appreciate the variation of linguistic practices in speech communities around the world, the relation of these practices to social variables (including socioeconomic social class, gender and sexuality, ethnic identity, generation and dis/ability) and how this variation affects communication across cultures. |
| 6 | Understand the principles by which language is used in social interaction, including the registers and genres of casual conversation and public institutionalised exchanges and how these understandings can be used to improve communication in a range of professional contexts. |
| 7 | Recognise how language variation relates to language change, as cultures evolve, as individuals develop and as texts unfold. |
| 8 | Demonstrate the ability to undertake innovative action research projects, independently and in collaboration with mentors and peers. |
