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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities
This course explored the most important aspects of societal and individual multilingualism in today’s globalised world. It explored how multilingualism can work on personal, scientific and policy levels and looked specifically at: linguistic landscape and policy, multilingualism at home and at work, multilingualism at school from a cognitive perspective, the position of minority languages and dialects.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Joana Duarte PhD
Lead educator
University of Groningen
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Learning outcomes
- Identify central aspects around societal and individual multilingualism
- Evaluate the benefits of multilingualism of both minority and migrant speakers
- Identify issues that arise when people who do not share the same languages meet
- Critically evaluate multilingual language policies for both migrant and minority languages
- Investigate multilingual practices
Syllabus
- Definition of multilingualism from an individual and a research perspective
- Language attitudes towards different languages
- Multilingualism in the urban scenery (linguistic landscaping)
- Language policies and the protection of endangered languages
- Heritage language maintenance and transmission in multilingual communities
- Advantages and challenges of multilingualism in the workplace
- Multilingualism in education (the case of the trilingual education)
- The role of the English language in multilingual education models
- The cognitive advantage of bi- or multilinguals
- Types and features of minority languages
- New speakers of minority languages
- Language contact (contact linguistics)
Issued on 13th April 2021
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