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The Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State's University Park campus is part of the College of the Liberal Arts. In teaching, research and service, its mission is to advance understandings of language use and language learning from a range of anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives.
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The Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University is an innovative center for teaching and research in the areas of language and language pedagogy. The Department manages four separate but complementary programs:
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FAU’s interdisciplinary program in Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature offers a minor and Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Linguistics. The MA in Linguistics at FAU prepares students for work in a variety of language related fields and for further study at the doctoral level. It is an interdepartmental program with courses offered by the department in the core areas of linguistics phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics and in the linguistic structure and history and dialectology of several foreign languages; these include French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The structure and history of English are taught in the Department of English. Other related areas are bilingualism, second language acquisition, language teaching methodology, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. Relevant courses are ... offered in the departments of Psychology psycholinguistics, first language acquisition and Anthropology.
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The Department of Linguistics at Ohio University offers a Master of Arts degree in applied linguistics with a strong theoretical foundation. The program prepares students to become professional teachers of English to speakers of other languages, as well as to join other professions specializing in the study and interpretation of language. In addition, the Department offers four non-European languages: Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, and Swahili; and it trains future teachers of these languages. Finally, it offers several languages using a self-instructional model: Siswati, Somali, Sudanese Arabic, Twi (Akan), Thai, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Kikuyu, and Khmer (Cambodian).
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The Department of Linguistics is unique in that all students and faculty in the department share an abiding interest in the study of American Sign Language (ASL). The ongoing, innovative research carried out by the linguistics faculty and graduate students is contributing substantially to what is known about the structure and use of sign languages. ASL is not only the subject of faculty and student research, but ... the language of communication in the classroom.
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Formally established in 1965, the Department of Linguistics quickly became one of the leading linguistics departments in the nation. While its focus was originally on research and the training of graduate students, the Department has ... developed an undergraduate program that has attracted some of the best students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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