Universität Wien

124090 VK BEd 09.2: VK Linguistics and Language Education (2024W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
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Mo 16.12. 10:15-11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 14.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 17.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Monday 28.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 04.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 11.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 18.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 25.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 02.12. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 09.12. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 13.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 20.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Monday 27.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

We all know that language plays diverse and crucial roles in education and that it is continuously present in teaching and learning. While certain practices, such as teacher talk, student contributions in class or exam writing, have been at the centre of pedagogical and applied linguistic attention for a long time, this cannot be said for the public presence of language in educational spaces. It required the sociolinguistic research area of ‘linguistic landscapes’ (LL) to recognise that the display of language in public space is also valuable for educational concerns as it opens questions such as: Which language/s is/are used on such posters and signs? What other semiotic modes are drawn upon, and for what purposes? What’s the relationship between a linguistic landscape and the multilingual constellation of students and teachers? What’s the role of English in linguistic landscapes? In what ways can LL research support English language teaching and learning?

It is questions like these that we will focus on in this course, both from a literature-based angle as well as an empirical perspective. More precisely, we will deal with topics such as language contact and World Englishes, Anglicisms and written code-switching, multilingualism and multimodality, language in education and linguistic landscape research. While the first two thirds of the course will allow students to gain theoretical familiarity with these topics and how to work with them practically, the last third of the course is dedicated for project work, with all students working in teams on self-selected educational linguistic landscapes.

This course combines mini-lectures, assignments, reading-based group work and discussion, and student-directed research work leading to a presentation and a written project report. Students who decide to write their bachelor paper will produce a research paper based on their LL project (instead of the project report).

Assessment and permitted materials

Continuous assessment

Course evaluation is based on:
I. assignments and class participation (max. 30 points)
II. project-based presentation (max. 10 points)
III. project report (max. 20 points) OR bachelor paper (max. 50 points)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements [dropping out of course is possible until March 31]:
(a) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences)
(b) submitting all assignments (on time)
(c) active engagement in project work and presentation
(d) handing in the project report / bachelor paper on time
(d) attaining at least 50% on each of the three parts (see I, II and III above)

Final grades & points achieved:
(VK) ‘1’: 54-60; ‘2’: 48-53; ‘3’: 42-47; ‘4’: 36-41; ‘5’: 0-35
(VK+BEd-paper) ‘1’: 90-100; ‘2’: 80-89; ‘3’: 70-79; ‘4’: 60-69; ‘5’: 0-59

Examination topics

Continuous assessment
Engagement in discussion and group work, fulfillment of tasks & assignments, giving a presentation, writing a course paper (either project report or bachelor paper)

Reading list

Bernardo-Hinesley, Sheryl. 2020. Linguistic Landscape in Educational Spaces. Journal of Culture and Values in Education 3(2), 13-23. doi.org/10.46303/jcve.2020.10
Bolton, Kingsley. 2018. World Englishes. Disciplinary debates and future directions. In Seargeant, P., Hewings, A., & Pihlaja, S. (eds.). 2018. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies (1st ed.). Routledge, pp. 59-76
Melo-Pfeifer, Silvia. 2021. Exploiting foreign language student-teachers’ visual language biographies to challenge the monolingual mind-set in foreign language education. International Journal of Multilingualism 18(4), 601-618.
Plag, Ingo; Braun, Maria; Lappe, Sabine; Schramm, Mareile. 2015. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Vetter, Eva. 2022. Lingusistic landscapes in school. In Stavans, Anat; Jessner-Schmid, Ulrike (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of childhood multilingualism. CUP, 623-648.
Gorter, Durk; Cenoz, Jasone. 2024. A panorama of linguistic landscape studies. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Holmes, Janet; Wilson, Nick. 2013. An introduction to sociolinguistics. London: Routledge, ch. 2.
Jewitt, Carey. 2016. Multimodal analysis. In: Georgakopoulou, Alexandra; Spilioti, Tereza (eds.) The Routledge handbook of language and digital communication. London: Routledge, 69-84.
Ledin, Per; Machin, David. 2020. Introduction to multimodal analysis. London: Bloomsbury, ch. 1.
Mooney, Annabelle; Evans, Betsy. 2019. Language, society and power: An introduction. London: Routledge, ch. 5.
Onysko, Alexander. 2004. “Anglicisms in German: From iniquitous to ubiquitous?” English Today 20/1: 59-64.
Sebba, Mark. 2012. Multilingualism in written discourse: An approach to the analysis of multilingual texts. International Journal of Bilingualism 17/1: 97-118.
Shohamy, Elena. 2018. Linguistic Landscape after a Decade: An Overview of Themes, Debates and Future Directions. . In: Pütz, Martin and Mundt, Neele. Expanding the Linguistic Landscape: Linguistic Diversity, Multimodality and the Use of Space as a Semiotic Resource, Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 25-37.
Smit, Ute; Onysko, Alexander. forthcoming. English in Austria. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 09.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-4692

Last modified: Mo 23.09.2024 19:06