弗林德斯大学

High-achieving students can undertake additional challenging material to enable them to maximise their intellectual growth in the arts high achievers program. It gives you the opportunity to thrive in an environment where students with similar capabilities come together to pursue their studies, develop their interests and share ideas. Develop research skills to prepare you for academia and a range of professions.

Applied Linguistics

Language and communication are a huge part of everyday life. They give us insights into the minds of others-from how we decipher advertisements, to how we feel about ourselves or how we speak with friends and family.

Studying applied linguistics means increasing your understanding of how language works in a wide range of personal, social and professional environments. It also encompasses how we interact with each other and how we negotiate and establish identity.

With a major in Applied Linguistics, you’ll learn how to express yourself effectively in written and spoken modes, and how the way you communicate helps or hinders your relationships. The major in applied linguistics will touch on practical issues such as the relationship between languages, cultures and societies; the acquisition of second and foreign languages; the teaching and learning of languages; language policy; and cross-cultural communication.

With these skills, you could find yourself teaching languages other than English, negotiating business deals or working with primary and high school students.

What you will study

• How language works
• Linguistics
• Second language acquisition
• Culture and communication
• Intercultural communication in everyday life
• Language and society

Your career

Applied linguistics is about understanding how language and communication works and being able to communicate effectively in all contexts. These skills could lead to work in many careers and industries, including emerging areas such as machine translation, speech recognition and human-computer interaction.

Potential occupations include:

• language teacher
• forensic linguistics specialist
• professional writer
• policy specialist
• communications advisor
• interpreter and translator.