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Foreign Languages and Literatures
Hello
你好
‫ﺍﻟﺳﻼﻡ ﻋﻠﻳﻛﻡ‬
Hola
Bonjour
Imaynallan
Ciao
こんにちは
Guten Tag
Why study a foreign language?
• Language study is more important than ever before in
the United States.
• Knowledge of foreign languages is now a fundamental
and indispensable part of every student’s education
and allows them to:
– Play a meaningful role in world discourse
– Protect our national security
– Compete with our international counterparts in every field of
study imaginable.
• With language study, students can communicate and
interact with large populations of speakers coming from
different cultural and ideological backgrounds.
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Government
Public Service
Diplomacy
Foreign service
Immigration/naturalization
Intelligence
Law enforcement
Travel and
Tourism
Airline services
Travel services
Travel guidance
Booking/reservations
Management
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Rowan University
Arts, Media
Entertainment
Advertising
Journalism
Broadcasting
Publishing/editing
Public relations
Interpretation
and Translation
Industry and
Commerce
Sales/Marketing
Banking/finance
Customer services
Imports/Exports
Consulting
Simultaneous interpretation
Consecutive interpretation
Court interpretation
Medical interpretation
Literary translation
Service and
Education
Teaching
Linguistics
Library science
Social work
Health services
What can I do with a foreign language?
• There are many potential career paths and
opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign
languages
• Interpretation and translation
• Health care
– Speech-language pathology and the study and treatment of
dyslexia and aphasia
• Business and advertising
– Marketing to non-English speakers
• Education
– Language teaching, teaching English to speakers of other
languages, training teachers, and designing assessments
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What can I do with a foreign language?
• There are many potential career paths and
opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign
languages
• Communications
• Publishing
• Acting or training actors
– As while learning the pronunciation and intonation of different
languages and dialects
• Computer science
– Including applications to speech recognition, text-to-speech
synthesis, artificial intelligence and robotics
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What can I do with a foreign language?
• There are many potential career paths and
opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign
languages
• Journalism
• Law
– Such as studying the language of legal texts, linguistic aspects
of evidence and issues of voice identification
• Public relations
• Government
– Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security
Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the
Department of Defense (DoD)
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at Rowan University
Spanish
MLL
Spanish
Spanish
Italian
German
Chinese
French
Japanese
German
Studies
Modern
Languages
and
Linguistics
French
RL
Romance Languages
(Spanish, French, Italian)
Take your language skills to new heights.
What are linguistics and
communication?
• Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
• Communication is the production and interpretation of
messages.
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What are topics of linguistics and
communication?
• Linguistics and communication studies examine such
topics as
– The relationships among the languages, thoughts, and
cultures of speech communities living all over the world
– Structures of human language, for example, phonology (sound
structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence
structure), and semantics (the structure of meaning)
– Language universals, characteristics which all human
languages share
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What are topics of linguistics and
communication?
• Linguistics and communication studies examine such
topics as
– Bilingualism
– The ways in which race, class, gender, and other social
characteristics may be displayed through the use of language
– Dialect formation
– Nonverbal communication, including messages of and about
the human body; approach-avoidance signals of space, gaze,
and touch; facial expressions; and the overlapping channels of
voice and gesture
– The process of human language acquisition
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Questions?
Contact
Dr. Marilyn S. Manley, Chair
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Bunce Hall 312
[email protected]
(856) 256-4500 x3466
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