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| Language Requirement for the Linguistics Graduate Program |
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Graduate students are required to show proficiency in one foreign language prior to award of the M.A. degree, unless they are native speakers of some language other than English. The language must have either substantial literature on linguistics or serve as a contact language for field research. Language exams are generally administered once a quarter. Sign up information for the exams is usually circulated via e-mail. The exam is administered by the Department's Language Examination Committee. It is highly recommended that students fulfill the language requirement as early as possible. Some suggestions for exam preparation: take a language course at UCLA, especially one targetted at graduate students preparing for foreign language exams; find a linguistics text in your foreign language for translation practice. Summer language courses at Santa Monica College tend to be inexpensive and of high quality. Students will be given a passage, approximately 500 words in length, to translate into English. The passage may be taken from any scholarly work in the field of linguistics, and will be chosen as being of medium difficulty. Students will have one hour to translate the passage; dictionaries are permitted. In order to pass the examination, students must: 1.translate the entire passage Other Ways To Fulfill the Language Requirement It is also possible to fulfill the language requirement by one of the following methods:
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