SubjectsSubjects(version: 945)
Course, academic year 2023/2024
   Login via CAS
Multilingualism - ALINV507M
Title: Multilingualism
Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (45)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D.
Annotation - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D. (22.09.2017)
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.
Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D. (21.09.2020)

 

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

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Tamah Sherman, Ph.D. (02.10.2021)

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

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

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

 
Charles University | Information system of Charles University | http://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-329.html