The Language Assessment Track prepares students to plan survey trips, gather and analyze data to compare languages and dialects, assess the needs of a language community, and write reports documenting important information about language communities. Students will learn how to conduct various types of sociolinguistic research in order to catalog the world’s languages.
Courses cover relevant linguistic principles and research methodology.
The Language Assessment Track is comprised of the following ten courses. All courses are taught at the university-level and can be part of a bachelor’s degree.
- Sociolinguistics
- Phonetics and Introduction to Phonology
- Survey Methods 1 or Field Methods and Data Collection
AC2
- Phonology
- Survey Methods 2 or Lexicography and Field Data Analysis
- Introduction to Grammar
AC3
- Language Development and Language Planning
- Survey Methods 3 or Discourse Analysis
- Anthropology or Advanced Phonology and Tone Analysis
AC1
Bible Translation and the Church must be done by everyone and is offered online.
SIL iDELTA Anglophone 