AJL22043 Linguistics: Multilingualism

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives (in Czech)
At the end of the course the students should have gained insight into the complexity of multilingualism and the many perspectives it can be studied and discussed from. They students should be able to understand and explain common myths about multilingualism and discuss phenomena and issues associated with multilingualism, including language attrition, code-switching, bilingual acquisition, bilingual advantage, and language policies. The students should be able to understand, interpret and critically evaluate scientific papers dealing with multilingualism.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • The following topics are going to be covered: - multilingualism as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field - psycholinguistic perspective: acquisition, attrition, bilingual cognition, mental lexicon, cross-linguistic influence, code-switching -sociolinguistic perspective: ESL industry, language planning, code-switching, case studies: Singapore, the Czech Republic - and bits and pieces from neurolinguistics, research methodology, statistics, literary theory
Teaching methods (in Czech)
lectures, class discussion, reading, hw assignments
Assessment methods (in Czech)
- 2 written assignments - oral exam
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
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