Undergraduate Course: Bilingualism (LASC10019)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | It is relatively uncontroversial that there are more bilingual / multilingual speakers than there are monolingual speakers in the world. Likewise, there are more bilingual /multilingual communities than there are monolingual ones. Extrapolating from this, we may safely assume that more conversations are conducted in two or more languages than they are in one language. This course examines issues in Bilingualism/multilingualism as a sociolinguistic and interactional phenomenon. The course covers issues such as language socialisation in bilingual settings, functional language distribution in bilingual/multilingual communities, language choice in bilingual / multilingual conversation, sociolinguistic consequences of bilingualism / multilingualism (e.g. language shift) and potential applications of the sociolinguistic and discourse analytic study of bilingualism / multilingual.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
(a) read and understand critically the literature on relevant aspects of bilingualism;
(b) describe patterns of language socialisation in bilingual settings;
(c) describe patterns of functional language distribution in bilingual communities;
(d) describe patterns and meanings of language choice and code-switching in bilingual conversation;
(e) demonstrate familiarity with issues in post-bilingualism situations (e.g. language shift, pidginisation and creolisation);
(f) demonstrate familiarity with potential applications of the sociolinguistic and discourse analytic study of bilingualism/multilingualism (e.g. language policy, language rights, bilingual education, etc.)
(g) demonstrate acquisition of general transferable skills (e.g. critical reading, academic writing, library and / or community-based research)
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Assessment Information
| 50% coursework and 50% timed exam |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Joseph Gafaranga
Tel: (0131 6)50 3496
Email: josephg@ling.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
Tel:
Email: S.Fong@ed.ac.uk |
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