Bachelor of Arts - Applied Linguistics

Flinders University

A Bachelor of Arts is your ticket to a career you're passionate about. Tailor your degree to align with your career aspirations, and enjoy flexible study options. You'll benefit from a personalised learning experience and small class sizes, learning from educators who are leaders in their fields. With a distinct emphasis on careers and skills development, you'll develop the complex critical thinking and problem solving skills that employers are looking for.

Applied linguistics is concerned with the practical issues of language such as learning and teaching, policy, multilingualism, cross-cultural communication, maintaining languages, and language difficulties. 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.