Multilingualism - ALINV514M

• Title: Multilingualism
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: ALINV507M
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with issues of bi- and multilingualism on the
individual, group, organizational and societal levels, in the context of both territorial linguistic
diversity and international migration.

Students will build upon the analytical skills they have acquired in other courses from areas
including (but not limited to) sociolinguistics and the sociology of language (including language
management and language communities), pragmatics, social psychology, psycholinguistics and
neurolinguistics, and language pedagogy.

Last update: Sherman Tamah, Mgr., Ph.D. (22.09.2017)

Course completion requirements

 

Requirements:
1) Attendance (at a minimum of 10 out of 13 meetings) and active participation
2) 8 reading reaction texts of approximately 300 words each
3) “Guaranteed reading” of texts – based on number of class participants, to be discussed
during the first meeting

Last update: Sherman Tamah, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.09.2020)

Teaching methods

This course will be taught in person. Some classes will take place online based on external circumstances, and information will be provided in advance.

Last update: Sherman Tamah, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.10.2021)

Syllabus

Program and rough topic outline:
1)  Intro meeting
2)  Concepts of bilingualism and multilingualism
3) Multilingual communication, code-switching and mixing, translanguaging and
crossing
4) Types of bilingual/multilingual situations, diglossia, language maintenance and
shift
5) Multilingualism in the workplace, in organizations and families
6) Language diversity, linguistic minorities and language rights
7) Multilingualism in the EU and in the world, autochthonous minorities vs.
international migration
8) Acquisition of bilingual competence, language attrition
9) Multilingualism and cognitive development, the multilingual brain
10) Bilingual education
11) Selected topics based on student interest 1
12) Selected topics based on student interest 2
13) Wrapping up

Last update: Sherman Tamah, Mgr., Ph.D. (22.09.2017)