ENG6633 - Multilingualism and Identity

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module builds on students’ understanding of child language acquisition and of sociolinguistic and discourse analytic approaches to the study of language.

It explores bilingualism and multilingualism as an individual and a social phenomenon. It raises students’ awareness of this feature of most societies by examining different situations around the world and the social and political issues arising from them. The module further develops students’ understanding of language and identity more generally by exploring the different social and discursive aspects of this phenomenon and by introducing them to key theoretical and methodological approaches within this field of study.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 15

Guided independent study
Hours: 260

Further details relating to assessment
The first assignment is due at the end of Semester 1. It is a 3,000-word equivalent case study that explores a multilingual situation chosen by students, drawing on key concepts and theories of research on multilingualism.

The second assignment is due at the end of Semester 2. It is a 3,000-word essay that critically discusses key concepts and approaches to language and identity and illustrates them with linguistic examples.

Formal assessment will be preceded by some formative exercises (e.g. practice analysis, referencing exercise, brief report on a research task) and an ‘assessment unpacking’ session.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered -

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