Applied Linguistics students, staff and faculty are invited to join us for our Year End Celebration on Monday, April 7, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rankin Family Pavilion 214/215.
Enjoy refreshments, play games and celebrate the graduating class!
Whether you want to jump on the fast track to graduation, reduce next year’s course load, satisfy a program requirement or pick up an elective, Brock’s Department of Applied Linguistics is offering Spring courses to help you advance your area of study and explore topics of interest.
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Language is vital for human communication, helping us share ideas and establish relationships. Learn more about something you use everyday, in all kinds of ways. In this course, you’ll explore the nature and structure of language, including the relationships between sounds, words, sentences, and the meaning we as humans convey to them.
Prerequisite(s): none
Required for all students within Applied Linguistics or students who are interested in switching to any Applied Linguistics program, those declaring a Minor in Applied Linguistics and for students entering the Speech Language and Hearing Sciences Certificate.
Recommended for prospective Speech-Language Pathology students seeking an Intro Linguistics ½ credit.
Restriction(s): Open to Applied Linguistics majors, CHYS (single or combined), CHYS BA Honours/BEd (Primary/Junior), Applied Linguistics Certificate students until date specified in Registration guide. Opens to non-Major per the restriction list on the timetable on March 19.
This course may also be of interest to students in Psychology, Child and Youth Studies, English Language and Literature, Education, and Modern Languages, Literatures and Culture. Relevant to students interested in the structure and meaning of English and other languages, and particularly to those contemplating careers in language teaching, literary studies, translation, psycholinguistics, speech-language pathology and audiology.
Learn more about our Spring courses.
For more information or to register for Brock’s Spring/Summer courses, visit brocku.ca/springsummer
Professor Ron Thomson was recently a guest expert on Loïs Talagrand’s The Language Learner podcast where he discussed effective methods for improving pronunciation and fluency, the pros and cons of having multiple talkers in training, vocabulary’s importance in language learning, and more.
