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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Study terms
- 30 Aug 2021
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Subject details
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- What is language?
- Language development and change
- Morphology
- Phonology (consonants)
- Phonology (vowels)
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Tense and aspect
- Unit review
- Words and word class
- Writing system and non-linguistic forms of communication
- Suprasegmentals
Equivalent subjects
You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Special requirements
No special requirements
This subject introduces the various component systems of language as a basis for conceptualising and describing language variation in education. These concepts are also applied to students’ individual needs and experience as they relate to current theories of first and second language acquisition and instruction.
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Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Language investigation (50%)
- Language exercise (50%)
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