Module Code - Title:
SL4035
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LINGUISTICS AND PHONETICS 3
Year Last Offered:
N/A
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Advanced knowledge and skills in linguistics and phonetics are essential for speech and language therapy practice when working with people with communication disorders. This module will develop students advanced knowledge and skills in the application of linguistics with a particular focus on social interaction, sociolinguistics, and phonetics. Students will learn advanced narrow transcription skills, understand prosodic analysis and be introduced to acoustic and instrumental measurement of speech. Students will further develop and develop their critical awareness of the role and practice of speech and language therapy in wide cultural and social contexts.
Syllabus:
This module is the capstone module for linguistics and phoentics teaching and learning. Content includes: Advanced phonetic transcription including use of diacritics; Language, power and bias; Core principles from the field of clinical sociolinguistics, multicultural and multilingual perspectives on human communication and language development; Communication as social capital with implications for accessing resources and meeting human rights, and; Discourse and conversational analysis.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Articulate the ways in which language and communication are characterised in a multitude of ways including socially, culturally, linguistically; and are mediated by society and structure.
Explain the main concepts employed in the acoustic and prosodic analysis of speech.
Integrate and apply knowledge from pragmatics and sociolinguistics to interpret case data and inform decision-making.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Value positionality underpinning the application of linguistics in SLT across a range of contexts and populations.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate proficiency in advanced phonetic transcription at the connected speech level.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Students attend weekly lectures and tutorials. The module is built on a structured, interactive delivery approach, that includes prior engagement in pre-recorded and/or signposted materials on core concepts followed by in person classes and tutorials (graduate attributes: curious, responsible, agile, articulate). The latter involve supported application and analyses of data (graduate atrribute: agile). The teaching and learning approaches afford students opportunities to articulate and apply their advanced linguistic knowledge to a range of contexts and settings (graduate attributes: agile, articulate). Learning is scaffolded through opportunities for peer-to-peer discussion (graduate attribute: articulate), web-based content including professional guidelines, contemporary international and national policies, texts and further learning resources, all updated yearly to reflect recent research and developments in this area.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Marisa Cruz,
Sónia Frota (2022)
Prosodic Variation (with)in Languages
Intonation, Phrasing and Segments
, Equinox
M Coulthard, A Johnson, D Wright (2016)
An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence
, Routledge
WF Katz, PF Assman (2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics
, Routledge
Murray J Munro (2020)
Applying Phonetics: Speech Science in Everyday Life
, Wiley Blackell
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSSLTHUFA - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
carol-anne.murphy@ul.ie