This unit will focus on acoustic phonetics, syntactic analysis of English and phonetic transcription of connected speech. Students will learn the basic units and normal grammatical patterns of English speakers, including how people process language, encode meaning and communicate on a day to day basis. They will then be able to use this knowledge to understand the differences found in people with communication disorders and those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Students will also form an understanding of the relationship between vocal tract shape and gestures and the sounds produced, as this is essential in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of speech disorders.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 3 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite:
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. On-campus Activity | 0% |
2. Online Quiz(zes) | 20% |
3. Written Assessment | 40% |
4. Practical and Written Assessment | 40% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
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Term 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 45.45% response rate.
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Competency in linguistic analysis of speech and language samples is a foundation skill, necessary for success as a practising speech pathologist.
Speech Pathology Australia Range of Practice:
Adult - Speech, Language and Voice
Child - Speech, Language and Voice
Competency-based Occupational Standards for Speech Pathology (CBOS 2011):
Unit 1 Assessment - Elements 1.1. 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 to Novice standard
Unit 2 Analysis and interpretation - Elements 2.1 and 2.4 to Novice standard
Unit 3 Planning evidence based speech pathology practices - Elements 3.1 to Novice standard
Unit 7 Lifelong learning and reflective practice – Elements 7.1, 7.2 and 7.4 to Novice standard
Competency Assessment in Speech Pathology (COMPASS®) Generic Professional Competencies:
Unit 1 Reasoning - Elements 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 to Novice standard
Unit 2 Communication - Elements 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 to Novice standard
Unit 3 Learning - Elements 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 to Novice standard
Unit 4 Professionalism - Elements 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 and 4.5 to Novice standard
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8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
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