Distribusi Mata Kuliah Program Studi Magister Linguistik Bahasa Inggris

Classes

Description

Credit Hours

Professional English 

This course explores the development and classification of English in the professional domain (English for Specific Purposes) in intercultural communication and engagement, with a focus on the fundamental principles and techniques of ESP study and design. Topics include investigating the characteristics of professional English in its specific contexts, analyzing English needs, constructing syllabus, selecting and/or developing material, designing teaching methodology, and selecting assessment strategies. It is particularly valuable for those who are preparing for careers as English language teachers, linguistics educators, or language researchers, equipping them with essential knowledge and practical skills for their professional paths.

3

Foundations of Academic Reading and Writing 

This course is designed to prepare students for reading and writing scholarly articles that adheres to academic publication standards in Applied Linguistics. Students are introduced to the general guidelines of reading and writing such a research paper by exploring the structure, language, and style of seminal- and recently published papers in reputable Applied Linguistics journals. Students are also introduced to different types of academic publishing and the ethics related to research and research publication.

3

Innovative Approaches to English Language Teaching

This course is a project-based design in an attempt to enrich students’ knowledge in teaching English for young learners in the context of multilingualism and its relevant approaches, including multimodality, linguistic landscape, Artificial Intelligence, reflection, action research, English as a lingua franca, translanguaging, sustainability and intercultural issues. This course integrates learning with community service or empowerment in forms of teaching practices and self-reflective study. 

3

Semantics and Pragmatics in Applied Linguistics 

This course introduces key concepts in semantics and pragmatics, focusing on how meaning is constructed, interpreted, and used in context. The first half explores foundational topics including lexical meaning, sentence meaning, followed by an in-depth look at Metaphors. The second half covers topics such as deixis, presupposition and implicature, as well as the interaction between tense, aspect, and modality. Through readings, guided discussions, and data-driven tasks, students will develop analytical tools to describe and evaluate meaning in both formal and applied settings. Emphasis is placed on real-world applications in areas like language learning, intercultural communication, discourse analysis and other applied linguistics contexts. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically engage with semantic and pragmatic theory to analyze linguistic data and design a small-scale research project or case study exploring meaning in context. 

3

Current Issues in Linguistics 

This course provides students with both theoretical foundations and practical experience in linguistic analysis, focusing on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, language variation, multilingualism, documentary linguistics, and linguistic data and software. Students will learn to collect, describe, and analyze linguistic data using traditional and modern methodologies. Through structured assignments and project-based learning, they will gain proficiency in using linguistic software, especially Audacity and ELAN, for tasks such as data processing, transcription, and annotation. They will also have practice presenting their research in both oral and written academic formats. By the end of the course, students will be able to conduct independent linguistic research and present their findings in an academic setting. 

3

Semester 2

Sociolinguistics 

This course introduces selected concepts in sociolinguistics. The first half provides a foundational overview of sociolinguistics and multilingualism, examining how languages and language speakers coexist, shift, and interact in different contexts. The second half explores mechanisms of language change at the lexical and structural levels, including grammaticalization, borrowing, and syntactic variation. Students will engage in guided analysis of real-world data, such as social media texts and World English varieties, and investigate how linguistic features evolve over time and across communities. Through mini-projects, students will learn to critically analyze language patterns and present their findings in academic format. The course emphasizes the connection between linguistic structure and social meaning, providing students with skills applicable to research in applied linguistics, education, and language documentation.

3

Classroom Discourse

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of classroom discourse in second and foreign language learning contexts from a social interaction perspective. It examines various theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing classroom interaction, with a particular emphasis on understanding how language learning opportunities are created and managed through talk and other communicative resources. A key component of the course involves hands-on experience in gathering and analyzing authentic learner language data, enabling students to develop practical skills in researching classroom interaction and its implications for language pedagogy. The course draws on principles from Conversation Analysis (CA) and other discourse analytic frameworks to provide a micro-analytic perspective on classroom interactions. It will also explore how learner language can be analyzed through different lenses, such as error analysis, developmental sequences, interactional analysis, referential effectiveness, and language complexity.

3

Research Methods and Statistics 

This course assists the students in understanding the methods for conducting research in English applied linguistics. The materials include the qualitative approach, quantitative approach, and the mixed-methods design. A special emphasis is also given on the statistical concepts and tests that are commonly used in applied linguistics research.

3

Corpus Linguistics 

This course introduces what language corpora are and how corpus tools can be used to obtain linguistic data of interest. It examines the use of corpora in the study of language (mainly English) for various purposes such as language description, language teaching and learning, building forensic evidence, translation studies, and dictionary making. Important findings and ideas derived from corpus data are discussed, such as the compilation of word/phrase lists and the pervasiveness of phraseology.

3

Thesis Proposal Writing

Adopting the project-based learning, this course is designed to assist students create a master-level thesis proposal on one issue in the field of Applied English Linguistics. The first half of the semester deals with the organization of the thesis proposal, the generic structure, and the discourse functions of two chapters in a thesis proposal, namely, review of relevant literature, including theoretical framework and research methods. The second half of the semester focuses on the introduction chapter. Throughout the semester students will draft their thesis chapters and receive both written and oral corrective feedback from the lecturer. At the end of the first half of the semester, students will have to submit the literature review and research methods chapters as well as the references, and at the end of the semester, students will have to submit the complete thesis proposal and the proposed advisor(s)’s names. During the semester break, students will have to present their revised thesis proposal before a panel of reviewers and receive feedback. Afterwards, they will work on their thesis project with a thesis advisor assigned by the department. 

6

Semester 3

Advanced Academic Reading 

Through this course, students will be guided to comprehend the organization and rhetoric of research that is relevant to their thesis topic. They will do analytical and evaluative reading of the concept and research in Applied English Linguistics. This course guides students in making a synthesis of their entire readings so that they can produce a comprehensive literature review that will lead them to design a valid and reliable research design for a thesis in Applied English Linguistics.

3

Advanced Academic Writing 

The Advanced Academic Writing course aims to develop advanced-level academic writing skills for scientific publications and research projects. Its focus includes discipline-specific writing, complex argumentation, rhetoric, and academic genre conventions. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis, information synthesis, meta-text, ethical considerations, as well as practical application to produce texts that are easily understood by readers and meet the expectations of examiners.

3

Translation and Interpreting 

This course aims to provide an introduction to crucial concepts and theories in translation and interpreting studies through contextual and collaborative learning and eventually to allow them to have a greater understanding of various topics in translation studies. This course attempts to relate theories to the practice of translation and interpretation to enable students to develop a sophisticated and in-depth understanding of the translation theories through reflective practice and assigned readings.

3

Language Technology for Linguistic Analysis  

This course is about the use of current speech technology in applied linguistics research. It will provide an introduction to the Praat computer program (Boersma & Weenink, 2021). It is an open-source software that is used to analyze the acoustic aspect of human speech. The primary goals of this course are to facilitate applied linguistics students with basic skills for analyzing vowels, consonants, word stress, and intonation in English words and sentences produced by Indonesian (L2) speakers (basic, intermediate, and advanced) and compare the results with the production from native English (L1) speakers. Using Praat, students will do spectral, frequency (formant), duration, and pitch analyses. They will also annotate the International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA) on Praat and print out the results in a high-quality image for paper writing or publication purposes. In addition, students will learn the R software basic functionality to analyze the results of the investigation.

3

Publication 

This course aims to help students turn their classroom papers into published articles in applied linguistics journals. Students will gain the skills and knowledge needed for this process, including how to draft articles, understand the publication steps, handle communication and revisions, and find relevant national and international journals.

3

Thesis  

Students writing thesis.

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