Course Descriptions

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University Sydney)

The first module will introduce participants to key issues in societal and individual multilingualism. This includes questions of multilingual develpment, multilingual language learning and use, as well as implications of multilingualism for language policy and planning at global national and institutional levels.

→ Course description (PDF)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin, Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, Prof. Dr. Anke Grotlüschen, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Höttecke (Universität Hamburg)

The aim of the module is to familiarize participants with research on language development in multilingual contexts from childhood to adulthood. 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 the development of a research task of your choice, to be presented and discussed with the Summer School scholars.

→ Course description (PDF)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller, Prof. Mehdi Riazi, Dr. Sue Ollerhead (Macquarie University Sydney)

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 qualitative research methods, including critical sociolinguistic ethnography and media discourse analysis. The module format includes lectures, seminars, group work and self-study. Assessment is based on the design of a personal interest research project, to be presented and discussed with the Summer School scholars.

→ Course description (PDF)

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.

→ Course description (PDF)