Skip to main

EDMSP6014 Applied Psycholinguistics

This unit provides post-graduate students with a foundation in applied psycholinguistics and basic methodological training in psychometric testing and experimental research. The subject offers an overview of the theoretical and experimental knowledge related to language psychology, and how this relates to language education and speech pathology. Psycholinguistics is inherently multidisciplinary and, as such, this unit draws on work from psychology, linguistics, education, speech pathology, audiology, behavioural science and cognitive science. Students will build on their understandings of language development and language learning gained in EDMST6010, and delve deeper into exploring the complexities of how language - as a phenomenon that is both embodied and embedded in social and cultural contexts - is processed and produced by humans across neurodiverse populations, and how meaning is made and negotiated in and through discourse. Students will learn about, design, and conduct their own forms of basic psycholinguistic experiments, including lexical decision tasks, primed response time tasks, and speech sample error analysis. Students will consider how psycholinguistic research informs evidence-based practice in Speech Pathology and educational psychology.

Course or unit outline
Credit points
15
EFTSL
0.125
Band
Band 2
Field of Education
Speech Pathology (061707)

Commonwealth supported place (CSP)

A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).

2026 contribution amount* $1,192
2026 grandfathered contribution amount^ $1,192

^ If you are a continuing student who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.
 
* For Psychology and Social Work bands the unit fee amount is determined by accredited courses. Students in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work accredited courses should refer to the information below.

Domestic full fee–paying places

A domestic full fee–paying place is one that isn’t subsidised by the Australian Government. These places are offered to postgraduate students or those who are ineligible for a CSP. Domestic postgraduate tuition fees are course-based annual fees, which means individual unit fees vary according to the degree. To find out more about domestic tuition fees and view the relevant fee schedule visit our fees website. 

International full fee–paying places

International tuition fees are course-based annual fees and the unit fee you pay will vary according to the degree you are studying. To find out more about international tuition fees and view the relevant fee schedule visit our fees website. 
Course or unit outline