Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities
Why join the course?
In a world of globalisation, people who do not share the same language meet more often every day. Being able to deal with these multilingual practices in an effective way can give you an advantage in your daily life and work.
The challenges and opportunities that we will speak of will be recognisable for learners. The course will also introduce you to real multilingual families who will share their personal experiences with their multilingual situations with you. The issues arising from the individual situations of our families will then be looked at from a scientific perspective.
What topics will you cover?
- 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)
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