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home.com>Dear Colleagues and Friends I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about our new online MA in Applied Linguistics. I have included a description of the University of New England's (UNE) new online MA in Applied Linguistics program for your information. I would greatly appreciate if you could also forward this announcement to family, friends, colleagues, other institutions, current and former students, or anyone else who you think might be interested in an online MA (e.g., working overseas, can't study full-time due to work or family commitments, etc.), or who might know of others who might be interested in a post-graduate program in Applied Linguistics. Our first intake will be July 2001, with new intakes every semester afterwards (e.g., February, July). The MA in Applied Linguistics is a popular degree at many universities in Australia and other countries for professionals in the fields such as education, language education and planning, TESOL, government, and the health and legal professions. The MA in Applied Linguistics will appeal both to those who do not have a background in Linguistics, but who wish to obtain a professionally relevant higher qualification, as well as to those considering post-graduate careers in the growing fields of Applied Linguistics and TESOL. This degree may also be of interest to those working with linguistic or cultural minorities.Our first intake will be July 2001, with new intakes every semester afterwards (e.g., February, July). The course consists of 48 credit points of 400-level coursework. Core units include LING 450 (The Design of Language), LING 451 (Issues in Applied Linguistics), LING 452 (Intercultural Communication ),and LING 453 (The English Language). Elective units include LING 461 (Reading the Research), LING 462 (Second Language Acquisition: Theory), EDST 423 (Second Language Acquisition: Applications), LING 464 (First Language Acqusition), LING 465 (Applied Phonology), LING 466 (Australia's Indigenous Languages) and LING 490 (Special Research Topic). New units may be added as the program develops. All units are 6 cpts, with the exception of LING 490 (12 cpts). Any qualified student, internal or external, will be able to enrol. The University of New England, a fully accredited university, was established in Armidale in 1954. It is the second oldest university in New South Wales. In addition to being the first Australian university established outside a capital city, UNE was also one of the first universities in Australia to focus on distance education. The email address for inquiries for the Online MA: ma.onlineMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
clg9.bham.ac.uk>The Tuscan Word Centre Now recruiting: May 7th - 12th 2001 How to use Corpora in Multilingual Work May 7th -12th 2001 Now recruiting A one-week intensive residential course at The Tuscan Word Centre. Quietly situated in the Tuscan hills. Twelfth in the series. Resident Staff on this occasion Prof. Wolfgang Teubert Prof Elena Tognini Bonelli Prof John Sinclair Dr Pernilla Danielsson Mr Martin Wynne For further information including a full list of topics to be covered, see the TWC website, http://www.twc.it Participation Fee: 600 euros Accommodation and meals: 500 euros Total: 1100 euros Aim: Aim: to give knowledge, skill and confidence to language professionals who are coming to grips with corpora. Corpus work is fast becoming an everyday activity in both the commercial and academic sectors of language study, and still only a small proportion of those who are getting involved with corpora have had even the most basic introduction to the management and use of corpus resources. This course features the particular needs and resources of multilingual corpus work, but not exclusively. TWC courses are intensive and last for one week, ranging from language policy matters to linguistic theory and description, featuring hands-on experience, detailed exemplification and practical technical review. Suitable for: -workers in the language industries -researchers and scholars of language -translators -lexicographers -computational linguists -language teachers. [The course is supported by a small grant from the EC-TELRI-II project which enables the fees to be kept low; TWC regrets that no grants or scholarships are available for this course.] John Sinclair, normally at The Tuscan Word Centre Vellano 409, 51010 Pescia (PT), Italia Telephone: +39 (0)572 409251 Fax:409253 web page <www.twc.it> Postal Address until Easter 2001: I Franchini, Via Provinciale San Pietro in Lama 26 7010 Lequile (Lecce), Italia Temporary alternative phone: +39 0832 631319Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue