Monash University Handbook 2011 Postgraduate - Course

The course seeks to further students' understanding of second and foreign language acquisition, language teaching, language contact and intercultural communication with particular reference to Japanese. It also aims to develop students' skills in critical reading and ability to design a research project.

Students successfully completing this course will have:

• a sound knowledge of diverse aspects of the academic discipline
• an understanding of the world view of the field of study
• a critical appreciation of the secondary literature in the field of study
• a familiarity with many of the key texts and cultural products pertaining to the field of study
• advanced reading and communication skills, both written and verbal
• advanced analytical skills
• a grasp of research methodology and ethics, and an ability to undertake a small, independent research project in one of the disciplines represented in the program.

This course consists of one core unit, and five electives.

Core unit

• APG4633/APG5633 Teaching and learning Asian languages

Electives

Students complete five of the following:

• APG4348/APG5348 Second language acquisition
• APG4382/APG5382 Contemporary issues in Asia
• APG4383/APG5383 Japan and Asia since 1945: War legacies and memory wars
• APG4385/APG5385 Investigating other societies: Area studies in global perspective
• APG4386/APG5386 Research project A (approval required)
• APG4630/APG5630 Japanese sociolinguistics
• APG4631/APG5631 Asian languages in contact
• APG4632/APG5632 Issues in Japanese language education
• APG4634/APG5634 Japanese linguistics
• APG4635/APG5635 Research methodology in applied linguistics
• APG4636/APG5636 Japanese pedagogic grammar

Students who obtain a distinction average and who have undertaken APG4635/APG5635 (Research methodology in applied linguistics) may seek approval from the course coordinator to undertake a research project for 12 points (usually APG4386/APG5386 Research project A) as one of the electives.

With the approval of the course coordinator, students may undertake an elective for 12 points offered elsewhere within the Faculty of Arts or from the Faculty of Education. Students may take up to 24 points of language units within the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics with the approval of the course coordinator.

Students who have completed studies in the masters to the value of:

• 24 points may apply to exit with a Graduate Certificate of Arts
• 48 points may apply to exit with course 0108 Graduate Diploma in Applied Japanese Linguistics.

Master of Applied Japanese Linguistics