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#LA-03-14 Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities

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#LA-03-14 Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities

  • Categories Languages
  • Duration 24h
  • Total Enrolled 13
  • Last Update December 19, 2020

About Course

University of Groningen

Description

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.

 

Who will you learn with?

Anna Pot

Anna Pot

I’m an applied linguist at the University of Groningen. My research and teaching center around multilingualism and cognition and multilingual aging.

 

 

Nanna H Hilton

Nanna H Hilton

I’m an assistant professor in sociolinguistics at the University of Groningen. My teaching and research is concerned with minority language issues and linguistic diversity, variation, and change.

 

 

Who developed the course?

University of Groningen logo

University of Groningen

The University of Groningen is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.

What Will I Learn?

  • 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

Topics for this course

17 Lessons24h

Introduction to the course?

In this activity, you will find out about the topics, the work forms and the learning outcomes.
WELCOME TO MULTILINGUAL PRACTICES VIDEO (01:31)00:01:31
FACTS ABOUT MULTILINGUALISM ARTICLE
WHAT IS MULTILINGUALISM? DISCUSSION

Introduction to the first lesson?

In the first activity of lesson you will learn about multilingualism and will share your own views on what it means to be multilingual.

Language ideologies?

In this activity, you will learn more about language ideologies and how they reflect the different statuses of languages in society. For this, you will make your own language hierarchy.

Linguistic landscape?

In this activity you will reflect about multilingualism in the linguistic landscape around you. You will share photos of languages you see in your everyday life and learn how to analyse different languages present in urban spaces.

Language policies?

In this activity you will learn about different language policies that foster multilingualism. You will reflect on endangered languages throughout the world and come up with your own policy to protect them.

Conclusion to the lesson?

In this last activity of the lesson you will listen to a summary.

Student Feedback

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BM

Really good! Covered lots of different areas and I really liked the combination of personal testimonies from multilingual families/minority language speakers and accessible academic articles.

MK

My knowledge drastically increased and the course raised interesting questions I will continue to explore in the future. Varies and interesting - great!

MR

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. In terms of content, the materials (videos, articles, and quizzes) were well chosen.

RK

One of the best MOOCs I've taken. Extremely informative and very well-structured. Highly recommend. It is four weeks long, covers a variety of aspects related to multilingualism. There is a lot of interaction among the participants.

SP

It was a really good course, I learned more than I thought. Thank you for preparing it.

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Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

Tags

Anna Pot Nanna H Hilton University of Groningen

Target Audience

  • This course is aimed at a wide range of people with an interest in multilingualism such as migrants, linguistics and language students, teachers, language policy makers, professionals who are working in a multilingual environment or parents, who are considering to raise their children multilingually.
  • It may also be an interesting addition for learners who participated in University of Southampton’s course on Understanding Language.
  • However, no prior knowledge is required to take part in the course and we welcome anyone who is curious to know more about multilingual practices.