Certificate of Achievement

Dasi Moodley

has completed the following course:

Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World

The University of Glasgow

This course explored living in multilingual worlds and critical intercultural aspects of languages and the creative arts

3 weeks, 4 hours per week

Alison Phipps

Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies

The University of Glasgow

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Improve your understanding of the role that languages play in our lives and our societies
  • Develop a deeper awareness of the implications of the language(s) people speak
  • Assess the implications of the languages that are taught/learnt
  • Reflect critically on what it means to be a language learner
  • Develop some knowledge on verbal and visual communication and how it can be enhanced for professional and everyday purposes
  • Reflect critically on the aesthetic and creative processes involved in learning languages
  • Apply what you have discussed and learnt to your professional and everyday life

Syllabus

Week 1: Should we all just speak one language?

  • Introduction to the course
  • Language ‘riches’: the languages we speak, the languages we learn
  • Monolingualism and multilingualism in today’s world

Week 2: What do we do about the danger in a single language?

  • Language and power in a context of globalisation
  • Verbal Hygiene: can or should we ‘clean up’ language?
  • Being a language teacher and learner

Week 3: Everyone is a language learner, and learning languages is a creative art

  • Language learning as creative art, and the role of creative arts in language learning
  • The freedom to achieve potential: the ‘capabilities approach’
  • End of course peer review reflection

Issued on 26th February 2017

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Free online course:

Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World

The University of Glasgow