Course Descriptions
Language Diversity – course description
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Linguistic (as well as cultural and social) diversity are basic characteristics of today's societies. Their causes include, among others, increasing migration, globalisation, new technical possibilities of communication, and interactions across traditional borders. Using different nations with significant migration, e.g., Australia, China and Germany, we will explore how increasing diversity affects education and social participation, and what policies and discourses have been developed in response to linguistic diversity. Despite their different socio-political traditions in dealing with migration, the challenges and responses to linguistic diversity in the respective countries share many similarities. Central among these is that linguistic diversity continues to be a central factor in social exclusion in these areas. |
Key Issues in Multilingualism
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Lecturers: to be announced The first module will introduce participants to key issues in societal and individual multilingualism. This includes questions of multilingual development, multilingual language learning and use, as well as implications of multilingualism for language policy and planning at global, national and institutional levels. The module includes lectures, a virtual discussion room and reading assignments. |
Language Development and Education in Multilingual Settings
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Lecturers: to be announced The aim of the module is to familiarize participants with research on language development and language education in multilingual contexts from childhood to adulthood. As part of this module you will get to know (a) methodologies for the assessment of multilingual competences in different age groups, from elementary to tertiary & adult education; (b) large scale-research with a focus on longitudinal observations of multilingual development in secondary schools (www.mez.uni-hamburg.de); (c) cross sectional studies on adult literacy and the problem of functional illiteracy; (d) in depth-studies on individual multilingual development in school subjects (using the example of physics education and foreign language education). The module will be based on lectures on the different research approaches and projects. The course work will consist of reading assignments, group work and either an essay or the development of a research task of your choice, to be presented and discussed in a virtual format. |
Language Diversity in Formal and Informal Settings
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The aim of this module is to familiarize participants with research related to forms, functions and consequences of linguistic diversity in formal and informal institutional contexts. This includes a focus on quantitative as well as qualitative research. As parts of this module, you will get to know research on linguistic diversity (a) across the life span; (b) in different societal institutions, e.g., healthcare and the working world; (c) in the media and public spaces. |
Translanguaging
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Lecturers: to be announced In this module, we will introduce the concept of translanguaging, by focusing on the way it challenges theoretical and methodological paradigms in (language) education. Through groundbreaking talks, we will discuss translanguaging as a theory of language/languaging and as pedagogy. Talks included in this module will focus on the relationship between translanguaging and critical language awareness, multisemiotic literacies, minority language maintenance, and foreign and second language learning. Transversal issues discussed in the talks will cover the potential of translanguaging to decolonize the curriculum, to enhance cognitive justice and social participation, and to promote multilingualism for all. |
Multilingual Learning Motivation in a Foreign Language Context
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Lecturer: Prof. Yongyan Zhen (Fudan University Shanghai) The module will introduce to the relationship between English-language and Chinese-language modernist practices throughout the 20th century. As part of this module, you will learn how Anglo-American and Chinese cultures came into contact at the beginning of the 20th century and how this contact resulted in media practices that problematized and continues to problematize the notions of both modernism and modernity. You will be exposed to Anglo-Chinese texts that demonstrate the degree to which Eastern and Western cultures influenced one another while also accentuating their cultural differences. Taking the skills you learned in the first and second modules, you will learn how to analyse Anglo-Chinese literary and cultural texts in a larger, global context. The module will include Chinese visions of progress as well as a round table discussion with the Summer School scholars. The discussion will summarize the modules’ results and offer the students a platform to present their work. |
Language Diversity in Law
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Language Diversity in the Workplace
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Language Policy in Diversity Contexts
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High- and Low-proficiency Speakers in Interaction
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