Languages and Linguistics COLLECTION POLICY
Reviewed 2010
Introduction
The Languages and Linguistics Collection serves primarily the needs of the School of
Languages and Linguistics for research, teaching and learning at both undergraduate
and graduate level. It also forms a significant resource for independent scholars,
participants in Lifelong Learning (Community Access Program) and the general
public.
The School of Languages and Linguistics http://www.languages.unimelb.edu.au/ was
created in 1993 as the vehicle for providing excellence in language teaching and
learning, and for ensuring wider access, across the University community, to high
level competency in languages and cultures. Its organisational structure, in close
association with the Asia Institute, and its outreach to the rest of the University
through the Diploma in Languages and the Diploma in Modern Languages, have been
widely seen as models of best practice in the Australian system. Drawing on the
expertise of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, the Language Testing Research
Centre (LTRC) and the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross Cultural
Communication (RUMACCC), the School promotes maximal synergies in language
teaching, learning and assessment strategies and provides a key nexus for reflection
and research in all areas of linguistics, and in the interface of language and culture.
Target users
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Undergraduate students
postgraduate and higher degree coursework / research students
academic staff.
Departments and centres
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Language Testing Research Centre
Research Unit for Multilingualism & Cross Cultural Communication
Courses
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 Undergraduate:
European Studies
French
German
Italian
Lingustics and Applied Linguistics
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
 Diploma in Languages
Five concurrent Diplomas will be offered with the Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne:
Global Issues, Languages, Informatics, Mathematical Sciences and Music (Practical).
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Postgraduate:
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Graduate Coursework Programs
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Graduate certificates
Graduate diplomas
Postgraduate certificates
Postgraduate diplomas
Masters by Coursework/Coursework and Minor Thesis
Graduate Research Programs
 Masters by Research
 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Research areas
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French: Cinema studies, Critical theory, Feminist theory, Intercultural
communication, La Francophonie, Quebec studies, 20th Century French history
and cultural history.
 French language studies: Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation
theory and practice.
 French literature studies: Early modern women's literature, Experimental
writing, French libertine writing, 19th and 20th Century poetry and the novel ,
Utopian theory and literature.
German: German literature from 16th to 20th Centuries, Current German literature
from the former GDR, German culture and philosophy, European studies, Historical
linguistics and aspects of German, German teaching methodology and structural
linguistics.
Italian:
 Language studies Italian linguistics, Dialectology, Applied linguistics,
Phonetics and Phonology, Computer Assisted Language Learning.
 Medieval and renaissance studies - Dante, Theories of gender, Theories of
behaviour and literary patronage.
 Literature studies - Modern and contemporary drama and narrative,
Women's writing, Theories of intertextuality and hypertext, Theories of
modernity and postmodernity.
 Cultural studies - Italian cinema, Migrant writing, Italo-Australian
(auto)biographical and fictional writing, Avant-garde texts.
 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
 Language description, typology, and theoretical linguistics: Linguistic
typology, Australian Languages, and endangered languages of the IndoPacific including Papuan, Aslian, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Amerindian
Languages, Language documentation, Syntactic & Morphological theory,
Semantics, Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology, Discourse and pragmatics,
Language and cognition.
 Applied linguistics and language acquisition - First language acquisition,
Second Language acquisition, Second language learning and teaching,
Interlanguage pragmatics, TESOL, Computer assisted language learning,
Language disorders.
 Language testing and Language program evaluation - Language testing
and assessment, Language curriculum design and pedagogy, Language
program evaluation
 Language in Society - Language variation, Language contact, Cross cultural
communication, Language and identity, Language and gender, Language and
Media, Gesture, Bilingualism, Computer mediated communication and Virtual
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communication, Language and the law, Poststructuralist approaches to
language.
Staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics are engaged in a wide variety of research
projects covering all major areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. Much of this
research is funded by Discovery and Linkage grants from the Australia Research
Council, and by international funding bodies including the British Academy of
Humanities, the DFG and Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany) and the ETS Princeton,
and Oxford University.
LTRC - Language Testing Research Unit Language test development and
validation, Testing languages for specific purposes, School-based language
assessment, Teacher proficiency assessment and, Language program evaluation
Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross Cultural Communication
conducts, and disseminates the results of, research in the Australian context in fields
such as
 Maintenance and development od bi- and multilingualism, incudling language
demography
 Language in social context
 Bilingual education and sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition,
bilingual language acquisition, and inter-cultural communication
 Language policy
Russian: Russian language, Russian/Slavic linguistics, phonology, word stress/accent, Czech
language, Russian literature.
Spanish: Spanish turn of the century and national decadence / regeneration, Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century universal exhibitions, and the construction of Spanish identity.
Swedish: Swedish sociolinguistics and discourse studies, Modern Swedish linguistics, Swedish
as a second language and Contemporary European society and culture.
Collection Statement
Undergraduate support:
The general policy for this discipline is to collect at undergraduate level, with the
intention of as broad coverage as resources allow.
The Library undertakes to purchase all undergraduate prescribed texts and
recommended reading titles. Multiple copies are purchased on a need basis. To
facilitate access to the collection, electronic versions of texts will be acquired where
available
Postgraduate support:
The general policy for this discipline is to collect to research level, with the intention
of as comprehensive a coverage as resources allow. Research level is defined as one
where independent research with the published sources can be pursued.
The Library undertakes to purchase materials identified for Masters by coursework
programs. Research level materials are selected in conjunction with members of the
academic staff, and from recommendations from students and key library staff.
The Library seeks to acquire copies of all materials produced by the School of
Languages and Linguistics.
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Special Collections
The Microforms Collection holdings constitute the research depth of the collection
for History. The collection includes microform archives and manuscripts, government
documents, newspapers, rare books and ephemera from virtually every country in
the world.
Formats
No specific format is excluded from the collection. Material may be acquired in print
form or, electronically. Where digital versions are available they are preferred.
Approval plans
There are two approval plans which cover Languages and Linguistics, one for
Australian publications and the other covering mainstream publishers in the UK and
North America This is being revamped during 2010, as it is moving from one supplier
to another.
Classification
The primary subject areas collected fall in the Dewey Decimal Classification range of
the 400s
Languages
Materials are chiefly acquired in all languages taught and researched.
Serials
Serials are selected on the recommendation of academic staff and library staff. The
Library user group endorses the selected items. Current journal subscriptions are
reviewed annually. Where possible, electronic subscriptions are preferred.
Locations of the collections
 The Baillieu Library (General collection, Special Collections, East Asian
Collection, Microforms, Serials, Government Documents, Reference Collection,
Rare Books, Print Collection, Buddy)
 The Eastern Resource Centre (General collection, AB & B Collections, Serials,
Strengths of the Collection
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