LING310-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021

Linguistic Research and New Zealand English

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 August 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 1 October 2021

Description

Research on New Zealand English has taught us a lot about how language varies and changes. In this course, you will carry out your own research project on New Zealand English, using our internationally renowned language databases, or by collecting your own data using a questionnaire or language experiment. You will do real research, in a collaborative research lab environment. The best projects are submitted to academic journals for possible publication.

How does New Zealand English vary across different speakers, how has it changed over time, and what can this tell us about how language works?

This is a research course. It has a practical focus which will provide hands-on experience in the analysis of New Zealand English. Students are trained how to think like a researcher, how to formulate hypotheses, and how to test them. You will conduct a piece of original research on language variation and/or change in New Zealand.  This may use existing corpora, or involve your own data-collection.  The transferable skills you learn on this course are excellent training for a wide range of careers, both in Linguistics and in other fields.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will:
1. be able to demonstrate their understanding of how New Zealand English varies and changes
over time
2. be able to display complex data in tabular and graphical form,
3. be able to critically evaluate rival hypotheses regarding language variation and change,
4. be able to effectively communicate complex research results

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 200 level from LING.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Jennifer Hay

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final presentation 10% The oral presentation will provide a brief overview of your project and what you found.
Oral: relection and analysis plan 5% submit the complete data-set that you will be analysing and writing up in your final report, together with a short reflection about the data collection process, and a plan for how you will go about analysing the data-set. The oral presentation will be 5 minutes.
proposal presentation 5% Present the relevant literature, and develop a project plan for an original research project. In the oral presentation, motivate your study and describe what you will do. The oral presentation will be 5 minutes.
Written review/proposal 20% Present the relevant literature, and develop a project plan for an original research project. If your project requires original data collection, include the ethics application as part of your written proposal. The written report should be no more than 2500 words.
Written: data-set reflection, analysis 20% You will submit the complete data-set that you will be analysing and writing up in your final report, together with a short reflection about the data collection process, and a plan for how you will go about analysing the data-set. The written reflection and plan should be no more than 1500 words.
Written: final report 40% A research paper, presenting your research project. The paper will include an introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion.

Textbooks / Resources

There is no required textbook for this course. Essential readings will be assigned each week and
posted on Learn but students working at this level are expected to supplement this with their own
reading.

Course links

Library portal
The course outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).
LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,570.00

International fee $7,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING310 Occurrences

  • LING310-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021
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