LING580 The Languages of Asia

Updated: 18 July 2012

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Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2013
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites	candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites	LING550 or LING553
Restrictions	LING280 or LING380 or LING480
Notes	None
Combined Units	LING380 - The Languages of Asia
Coordinator(s)	To be advised
Unit Description	The languages of Asia are both linguistically fascinating, and of great practical and cultural importance to the global environment of the 21st Century. This unit overviews the diversity of languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, and describes the main sociocultural and linguistic similarities and differences among them. The unit teaches appropriate linguistic techniques for analysing characteristic features of many of these languages, such as tones, classifiers, serial verb constructions, honorifics, and non-alphabetic scripts. Both national and minority languages are covered. The unit is supported by a variety of online tools including online assessment.
Materials	Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

describe the diversity of languages and language situations in Southeast Asia and East Asia;
identify and demonstrate an understanding of the most important similarities and differences in linguistic structure among the languages of Southeast Asia and East Asia;
apply appropriate techniques of linguistic analysis to data sets of moderate complexity from Asian languages;
identify and demonstrate an advanced level of understanding of some of the important sociocultural aspects of various Asian languages; and
assess how linguistic facts about these languages are relevant to issues in linguistic theory.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Linguistic concepts and analytical techniques are taught in online study notes and readings, practised in self-tests and online exercises, and assessed via all assessment tasks.
2	Communication Skills Part of the unit content concerns communicative styles in various Asian languages, especially Malay and Japanese. Communication skills will be taught and assessed through each assessment task.
3	Global Perspectives Unit content includes a good deal of sociocultural and historical information on East Asia and Southeast Asia. Materials and discussion topics will underline this and students will be expected to reflect this in their assignments.
4	Information Literacy Students are encouraged to search for information, in hard copy and online, through library sources and the internet to supplement their reading for their research project/essay. It is assessed in all assessment tasks.
5	Life-Long Learning This unit provides the opportunity for students to identify, evaluate and implement personal learning strategies and study skills that will be valuable throughout their life.
6	Problem Solving Applying concepts of linguistic analysis to unfamiliar data sets is taught and practised and assessed in all assessment tasks.
7	Social Responsibility The learning activities in this unit will encourage students to develop their sense of social responsibility in the area of intercultural relations and the recognition of diversity.
8	Team Work Cooperative online discussions promotes appreciation of and skills in participating in collective problem solving. It is assessed in their online discussions.

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